When does the escape character work within raw strings?

[walterbyrd]

On May 22, 12:22 pm, "Rhodri James"
> How do you know how a string object is going to be treated by any
> given function?  Read the Fine Manual for that function.

So am I to understand that there is no consistency in string handling
throughout the standard modules/objects/methods?

Seems to make python a lot more complicated than it needs to be, but
okay.