raw strings and \

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Blackbird" <fake at nospam.no> wrote:

> Slightly OT, but here is a crazy little program that shows the power of
> using raw strings:
>
> s=r'print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s)'
> print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s)
>
> When run, this program will print an exact copy of itself.

I'm not sure what the raw strings brings to the table, though; it's not like you need
them to write a "self-replicating" python program:

    http://miscoranda.com/37

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