Simple syntax question

[Erik Max Francis]

Duncan Booth wrote:

> A minor nitpick. A backslash does still have a special meaning in a
> raw
> string if it is followed by a quote: then the backslash prevents the
> following quote terminating the string, although the backslash itself
> is
> not removed from the string.
> 
> e.g.
> >>> s = r"\""
> >>> s
> '\\"'

Good point, which is why r'\' (or r"\") as a standalone literal string
is illegal:

>>> r'\'
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    r'\'
       ^
SyntaxError: invalid token


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