From 31e1aec6f4faa0a07abf2ba6dfcf2ce5766ac7d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hanan Basheer <20b030018@iitb.ac.in>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:28:10 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update introduction.rst

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 Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index 8763626ef553b98..edf4b1df6b7a10a 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,29 @@ the first quote::
    >>> print(r'C:\some\name')  # note the r before the quote
    C:\some\name
 
+There is one subtle aspect to raw strings that is of special concern to Windows
+programmers:  a raw string may not end in an odd number of ``\`` characters.
+This is because the interpreter sees this as an escaped quote character, and so
+it does not recognize it as the end of the string::
+
+   >>> fn = r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
+     File "<stdin>", line 1
+       fn = r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
+                                    ^
+   SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
+
+There are several workarounds for this.  One is to use regular strings and
+double the backslashes::
+
+   >>> fn = 'C:\\this\\will\\work\\'
+
+Another is to add a blank character before the quote and then remove it::
+
+   >>> fn = r'C:\this\will\work\ '.strip()
+
+Strings can be concatenated (glued together) with the ``+`` operator, and
+ repeated with ``*``::
+
 String literals can span multiple lines.  One way is using triple-quotes:
 ``"""..."""`` or ``'''...'''``.  End of lines are automatically
 included in the string, but it's possible to prevent this by adding a ``\`` at

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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-08-26-16-53-22.bpo-11479.zHAOnZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-08-26-16-53-22.bpo-11479.zHAOnZ.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added a discussion of trailing backslash in raw string to tutorial
\ No newline at end of file