On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > In a raw string, the backslash is buggy (IMNSHO) when it's the last > character.
It's an inevitable consequence of using the backslash to escape the quote character. If instead, a raw string doubled the quote character (like in REXX), it'd need no other escape: r'\' --> '\\' r'''' --> "'" Too late to change now. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
