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#1865: document syntax for bytes literals.

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Georg Brandl 2010-09-25 13:46:23 +00:00
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@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ String literals are described by the following lexical definitions:
.. productionlist::
stringliteral: [`stringprefix`](`shortstring` | `longstring`)
stringprefix: "r" | "u" | "ur" | "R" | "U" | "UR" | "Ur" | "uR"
: | "b" | "B" | "br" | "Br" | "bR" | "BR"
shortstring: "'" `shortstringitem`* "'" | '"' `shortstringitem`* '"'
longstring: "'''" `longstringitem`* "'''"
: | '"""' `longstringitem`* '"""'
@ -458,8 +459,10 @@ different rules for interpreting backslash escape sequences. A prefix of
``'u'`` or ``'U'`` makes the string a Unicode string. Unicode strings use the
Unicode character set as defined by the Unicode Consortium and ISO 10646. Some
additional escape sequences, described below, are available in Unicode strings.
The two prefix characters may be combined; in this case, ``'u'`` must appear
before ``'r'``.
A prefix of ``'b'`` or ``'B'`` is ignored in Python 2; it indicates that the
literal should become a bytes literal in Python 3 (e.g. when code is
automatically converted with 2to3). A ``'u'`` or ``'b'`` prefix may be followed
by an ``'r'`` prefix.
In triple-quoted strings, unescaped newlines and quotes are allowed (and are
retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the string. (A