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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-10-01 20:41:57 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-10-01 20:41:57 (GMT)
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Fix encoding of \ in some string literals in the discussion of "raw"
strings. Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
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@@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ quote the following character, but \emph{all backslashes are left in
the string}. For example, the string literal \code{r"\e n"} consists
of two characters: a backslash and a lowercase `n'. String quotes can
be escaped with a backslash, but the backslash remains in the string;
-for example, \code{r"\""} is a valid string literal consisting of two
-characters: a backslash and a double quote; \code{r"\"} is not a value
+for example, \code{r"\e""} is a valid string literal consisting of two
+characters: a backslash and a double quote; \code{r"\e"} is not a value
string literal (even a raw string cannot end in an odd number of
backslashes). Specifically, \emph{a raw string cannot end in a single
backslash} (since the backslash would escape the following quote