[melbourne-pug] raw string prob

[Mike Dewhirst]

Thanks everyone - the stackoverflow discussion was interesting.

Mike



On 01/02/2010, at 4:04 PM, Richard Jones <r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>> Can anyone please explain tyhis for me?
>>
>> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit  
>> (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more  
>> information.
>>>>> raw = r'J:\'
>> File "<stdin>", line 1
>>   raw = r'J:\'
>>              ^
>> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>>>>>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/647769/why-cant-pythons-raw-string-literals-end-with-a-single-backslash
>
> (quick answer: it's because the quote character may be escaped with  
> the backslash even in a raw string)
>
>
>     Richard
>
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