[issue21283] A escape character is used when a REGEXP is an argument of strip string function

2014-04-21 Thread Tito Bouzout
Tito Bouzout added the comment: Thanks guys for the information! Is still weird to me that the escape character is used, but well ! Will remember this bug. Kind regards, -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue21283] A escape character is used when a REGEXP is an argument of strip string function

2014-04-17 Thread Tito Bouzout
New submission from Tito Bouzout: Hello! I got a report that the character \ was removed from a string using the following code \\server\path\to.strip(r'\'') At first insight, looks like a bug, because I don't expect the use of the escape character at all. Then I noticed, that our mistake