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		swinglock on Dec 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running your JS code in Python It's called a "raw string" rather than "regexp string", though that is the common use for it.

bobbyi_settv on Dec 28, 2013 [–]

The other common use is Windows paths since traditionally backslashes are used as the delimiter. (Obviously hardcoded paths in code aren't generally a great idea, but that's another story.)

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