On 8/10/2019 3:36 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Which is why I suggested rr"C:\directory\", but allowed as how there might be better spellings.... I like your v for verbatim !Glenn Linderman wrote:I wonder how many raw strings actually use the \" escape productively? Maybe that should be deprecated too! ? I can't think of a good and necessary use for it, can anyone?Quite rare, I expect, but it's bound to break someone's code. It might be better to introduce a new string prefix, e.g. 'v' for 'verbatim': v"C:\Users\Fred\"
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