R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

To a pythonista, the perl behavior is counter-intuitive :)

That said, the behavior of r'\' *is* somewhat counter-intuitive.  See issue 
1271 for a fairly thorough exploration of why it is the way it is.

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