On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Prasad, Ramit
<ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>
> Why not just use r'C:\Python27\\'? Might be too confusing for
> a beginner to remember, I suppose.
Off the top of my heard I can think of 3 raw-escape uses of backslash
in a raw string literal: placing an even number of backslashes at the
end of the literal (an odd number is a syntax error), including the
quote character, and raw line continuation (includes the LF):
>>> list(r'\\')
['\\', '\\']
>>> list(r'\'')
['\\', "'"]
>>> list(r"\"")
['\\', '"']
>>> s = r'\
... '
>>> list(s)
['\\', '\n']
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