Raw Strings with Variables

[Albert Hopkins]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:16 -0700, WilsonOfCanada wrote:
> Hellos,
> 
> I know that if you have:
> 
> happy = r"C:\moo"
> print happy
> 
> you get C:\moo instead of C:\\moo
> 
> The thing is that I want to do this a variable instead.
> 
> ex. testline = fileName.readline()
>       rawtestline = r testline

I'm not sure what you are hoping for... Raw strings apply to string
literals.  If you are reading from a file, as above, you need not worry
about it:

$ cat test.txt 
C:\moo
$ python -c 'r = open("test.txt").readline() ; print r'
C:\moo