On 15 October 2012 00:46, MRAB <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:python@mrabarnett.plus.com" target="_blank">python@mrabarnett.plus.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

OK, but what about raw string literals? Currently, &quot;\\u0190&quot; ==<br>
r&quot;\u0190&quot;, but &quot;\\u0190&quot; != r&quot;Ɛ&quot;.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The “r&quot;” prefix escapes all escapes, so will escape this escape too. Hence, this behaviour is un...escaped ;).</div></div>