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What exactly do "u" and "r" string flags do, and what are raw string literals?

While asking this question, I realized I didn't know much about raw strings. For somebody claiming to be a Django …

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How to match a new line character in Python raw string

I got a little confused about Python raw string. I know that if we use raw string, then it will …

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Valid JSON giving JSONDecodeError: Expecting , delimiter

I'm trying to parse a json response data from youtube api but i keep getting an error. Here is the …

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What does preceding a string literal with "r" mean?

I first saw it used in building regular expressions across multiple lines as a method argument to re.compile(), so …

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Why can't Python's raw string literals end with a single backslash?

Technically, any odd number of backslashes, as described in the documentation. >>> r'\' File "<stdin>", …

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What exactly is a "raw string regex" and how can you use it?

From the python documentation on regex, regarding the '\' character: The solution is to use Python’s raw string …

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Raw Strings in Java - for regex in particular. Multiline strings

Is there any way to use raw strings in Java (without escape sequences)? (I'm writing a fair amount of regex …

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Python raw literal string

str = r'c:\path\to\folder\' # my comment IDE: Eclipse Python2.6 When the last character in the string is a …

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Python Argparse: Raw string input

Apologies if this has been asked before, I did search for it but all hits seemed to be about python …

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How to format raw string with different expressions inside?

Let's say, we want to catch something with regex, using rawstring to define the pattern, which pattern has repeating elements, …

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