A bug for raw string literals in Py3k?

[Yingjie Lan]

Hi,

I tried this in the IDLE (version 3.1.2) shell:
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

But according to the py3k docs
(http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html):

All backslashes in raw string literals are interpreted literally.

So I suppose this is a bug?

Yingjie

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

So I suppose this is a bug?

It's not, see

http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals

# Specifically, a raw string cannot end in a single backslash

Regards,
Martin