Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The "r" prefix changes how the escape sequences are interpreted after
the string literal has been parsed, it doesn't change how the literal
itself is actually parsed.
Fixing this will imply too much low level work, and it's easily solved
in
New submission from LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
currently r"\" or r'\' is not a valid string literal and it is already
documented.
but this exception is not simple enough, it make users confused when
they found that r'C:\Program\Python\' does not work as expected.
please consider support th