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
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