Tim Chase wrote:
>>> r"a\"
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal (<pyshell#45>, line 1)
It seems the parser is interpreting the backslash as an escape
character in a raw string if the backslash is the last character.
Is this expected?
Yep...as documented[1], "even a raw string cannot end in an odd number
of backslashes".
So how do you explain this?
>>> r'a\'b'
"a\\'b"
The backslash is kept, but it causes the following quote to be escaped.
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