On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:58:48 +0000, OKB (not okblacke) wrote: > I'm trying to write a unicode raw string literal, and I seem to be > running up against a conflict between the \uXXXX unicode character > escape and the need to have a literal \u (i.e., backslash followed by a > lowercase letter U) in the string. > > If I do ur"\universe" I get a UnicodeDecodeError because (I think) > it tries to interpret \universe as a Unicode escape. But if I do > ur"\\universe" I get a string that contains two backslashes followed by > the word "universe".
That's because in a raw string, \\ means two backslashes. > How can I specify a unicode raw string literal that contains a > single backslash followed by the word "universe"? The usual way. >>> word = u'\\universe' >>> len(word) 9 >>> word[0] u'\\' >>> word[1] u'u' >>> print word \universe >>> word u'\\universe' -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
