On 25 Maj, 05:29, Jim Garrison <j...@acm.org> wrote: > And as an interesting exercise, try > > print r'test \' > print r'test \\' > > Because of the way raw string parsing is defined, neither of these will > pass the parser. In fact, a raw string cannot have a backslash as > its last character.
Tried it: >>> r'test \' SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal >>> r'test \\' 'test \\\\' Second one is accepted. See the language reference section 2.4.1 as of why; http://www.python.org/doc/current/reference/lexical_analysis.html?highlight=raw%20strings#string-literals /Niklas Norrthon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
