From: sobolevn Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:02:50 +0000 (+0300) Subject: gh-122701: Fix wording of raw strings/bytes in `lexical_analysis.rst` (#122702) X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0a1~815 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea70439bd2b5a1c881342646f30942f527f61373;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-122701: Fix wording of raw strings/bytes in `lexical_analysis.rst` (#122702) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 594fc713aa8e..635d36537a06 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -503,11 +503,10 @@ must be expressed with escapes. single: r"; raw string literal 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 -unicode literals behave differently than Python 3.x's the ``'ur'`` syntax -is not supported. +or ``'R'``; such constructs are called :dfn:`raw string literals` +and :dfn:`raw bytes literals` respectively and treat backslashes as +literal characters. As a result, in raw string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` +escapes are not treated specially. .. versionadded:: 3.3 The ``'rb'`` prefix of raw bytes literals has been added as a synonym