Matthew Warren wrote in news:mailman.1152.1159872720.10491.python-
list at python.org in comp.lang.python:
> I would expect this to work,
>> rawstring=r'some things\new things\some other things\'
It in the docs:
<url:http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html#l2h-14>
... Specifically, a raw string cannot end in a single backslash (since the
backslash would escape the following quote character). Note also that a
single backslash followed by a newline is interpreted as those two
characters as part of the string, not as a line continuation.
Rob.
