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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Basics

Posted by Raph Hennessy
Raph Hennessy
2,197 Points

Make this string a raw string?

I got to this question (make this a raw string: "hello" and I have no idea how to solve it.

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

In Python you make a raw string (where the backslash "\" won't be interpreted as starting a special sequence to put special characters in it) by prefixing the string with an r. So "hello" as a raw string will be r"hello".

Raph Hennessy
Raph Hennessy
2,197 Points

oh. thanks :)