From: Ryan Mcdonald <ryemcdonald@...>
Date: 2007-06-07T09:06:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Error when substituting a backslash in a string

>> p a.sub('\', '')
>>
> 
> On that last line, your backslash is escaping the single quote and
> causing parsing lossage.

so.. sometimes escaping happens within single quotes, and sometimes it 
doesn't?

a = 'yo\n'  # doesn't escape

feels like this should escape:
p a.sub("\\", '')

and this shouldn't:
p a.sub('\\', '')

one more thing to remember I guess.. :-)



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