Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

Ron Adam wrote:

The following inconsistency still bothers me, but I suppose it's an edge case that doesn't cause problems.

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print r"hello world\"

File "<stdin>", line 1 print r"hello world\" ^ SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string

In the first case, it's treated as a continuation character even though it's not at the end of a physical line. So it gives an error.

No, that is unrelated to line continuation. The \" is an escape sequence, therefore there is no double-quote to end the string literal.