[Tutor] can you turn strings from a file into raw strings?

[Jonathan Hayward]

>
> I think I confused myself by assuming that stuff that worked one way 
> in the interactive prompt on strings typed in as literals and assigned 
> to variables would work the same on a string taken from 
> file.readline(). Clearly I need to know more about Python before 
> running around making assumptions!

Go ahead and make mistakes, and let other people see your assumptions. 
It's one of the best ways to learn, and Tutor has people who will gently 
correct your assumptions.

Neil Postman, in _The End of Education_, talked about mistakes. He 
describes them as a valuable opportunity for a teacher to see what a 
student is thinking, and offer guidance that the teacher might not know 
to offer. Someone said, 'You need to make a million mistakes to learn a 
language, so get cracking!'

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