Best Practice Question

[Anthony Correia]

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, pytho... at tim.thechases.com wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
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> > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure
> 
> > there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ?
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> > 
> 
> > r'\'
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> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
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> 
> 
> I hit this all the time with Vim's path-completion (":help
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> i_CTRL-X_CTRL-F") on Win32 which puts a trailing "\" on
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> directory-names.  I just need to remember to remove it, a task made
> 
> easier because the syntax highlighting correctly shows how Python
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> interprets it (i.e., the string is still continued).
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> 
> 
> -tkc

Sorry about that I hit the touchpad on my laptop by mistake.  Beside the using  single '\' vs a double '\\' does that look ok?