Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> (and please avoid the abuse of raw strings for Windows paths).
>Why do you consider that abuse of raw strings?
I consider it abuse because it's not what they were invented for.
I consider discouraging it to be a good thing in order to reduce
the chances of people being bitten by, for instance:
>>> os.listdir(r"C:\")
File "<stdin>", line 1
os.listdir(r"C:\")
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
and getting all confused on this group.
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