Rawest raw string literals
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Sat Apr 22 17:28:22 EDT 2017
On 2017-04-22 23:13, Mikhail V wrote:
> k = r"abc
> def"
>
> gives an error:
>
> k = r"abc
> ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>
> So one could define a rule, that a raw string *must*
> be terminated by the sequence quote + newline.
> In theory.
Though one can do
k = r"""abc
def
ghi
jkl
mno
pqrs
\tuv
wxyz
"""
which keeps the "\" while allowing multi-line strings.
-tkc
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