Raw strings and escaping

[Fredrik Lundh]

Matthew Warren wrote:

> I would expect this to work,
>
> rawstring=r'some things\new things\some other things\'
>
> But it fails as the last backslash escapes the single quote.

raw string literals are parsed in exactly the same way as ordinary string literals; it's
just the mapping from the string literal to the contents of the string object that differs.

see the documentation for details.

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