On 2007-07-04, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-07-04, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:21:14 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> >>> If the escaped quotes didn't function in raw strings, I'd be >>> unable to construct (with a single notation) a regex that >>> included both kinds of quotes at once. >>> >>> re.compile(r"'\"") >> >> Where's the problem!? :: >> >> re.compile(r''''"''') > > That incurs the problem that you can't end with a '. So you > can't end with *something* either way.
I take that back. With good planning, you can end with whichever you need by choosing the other delimiter. Oh well. It seemed like a good explanation at first. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
