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How do I write a raw string (r'...') that ends with a backslash?

May 18th, 2000 17:53
unknown unknown, Beat Bolli, Moshe Zadka

r'this ends with a ' '\\'

A pure raw string cannot end with an odd number of backslashes. The 
above, using the fact that consecutive string literals are concatenated 
at runtime, is the standard workaround.