[Python-ideas] Maybe allow br"" or rb"" e.g., for bytes regexes in Py3?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mark Summerfield writes:

 > Python 3 has two string prefixes r"" for raw strings and b"" for
 > bytes.

And you *can* combine them, but it needs to be in the right order
(although I'm not sure that's intentional):

steve at uwakimon ~ $ python3.1
Python 3.1.2 (release31-maint, May 12 2010, 20:15:06) 
[GCC 4.3.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> rb"a\rc"
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    rb"a\rc"
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> br"abc"
b'abc'
>>> br"a\rc"
b'a\\rc'
>>> 

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