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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-06-20 09:26:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-06-20 09:26:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 0182f38dece9d37818f7409a807648a0dceaa783 (patch) | |
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Fix small overeager edit from 8e47e9af826e.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 5e5903f..bab39f9 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ must be expressed with escapes. As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix unicode strings with a ``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases. -Bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'`` +Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'`` or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as literal characters. As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` escapes in raw strings are not treated specially. Given that Python 2.x's raw |