On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:26 AM, John Arbash Meinel
wrote:
r"testing \" backslash and quote"
> 'testing \\" backslash and quote'
>
> It happens that this is the behavior I want, but it seemed just as
> likely to be an error. I tested it with python2.5 and 2.6 and got the
> same results.
The
I'm trying to determine if this is intended behavior:
>>> r"\""
'\\"'
>>> r'\''
"\\'"
Normally, the quote would end the string, but it gets escaped by the
preceding '\'. However, the preceding slash is interpreted as 'not a
backslash' because of the raw indicator, so it gets left in verbatim.
N
