Ron Adam wrote: > The following inconsistency still bothers me, but I suppose it's an edge > case that doesn't cause problems. > > >>> print r"hello world\" > File "<stdin>", line 1 > print r"hello world\" > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> In the first case, it's treated as a continuation character even though > it's not at the end of a physical line. So it gives an error. No, that is unrelated to line continuation. The \" is an escape sequence, therefore there is no double-quote to end the string literal. -- Benji York http://benjiyork.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
