Hi Alex, thanks for the reply. I can see that there is a choice that needed to be made. Before I was aware of the \ issue I just used (yes it has come up, but the example is at work) triple quotes to work around the embedded quote issue:
x=r'''It's like this "c:\blah\" ok?''' print x It's like this "c:\blah\" ok? Am I missing something? I guess my point is that it is quite surprising that r'\' is not a legal way to represent a backslash. I look for consistency in the tools that I work with and this except-for-the-last-character exception is annoying (I admit it might be a silly use-case but consistency is consistency). Again, thanks for taking the time to reply. Now get back to work on your new Nutshell book :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list