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what is wrong with that r"\"

alf
question without words:
>>r"\"
File "<stdin>", line 1
r"\"
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
>>r"\ "
'\\ '
Jul 3 '07
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On 2007-07-04, Neil Cerutti <ho*****@yahoo. comwrote:
On 2007-07-04, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj****@gmx.net wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:21:14 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>If the escaped quotes didn't function in raw strings, I'd be
unable to construct (with a single notation) a regex that
included both kinds of quotes at once.

re.compile(r"'\ "")

Where's the problem!? ::

re.compile(r''' '"''')

That incurs the problem that you can't end with a '. So you
can't end with *something* either way.
I take that back. With good planning, you can end with whichever
you need by choosing the other delimiter.

Oh well. It seemed like a good explanation at first.

--
Neil Cerutti
Jul 4 '07 #11

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