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r82373 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-29 10:57:57 -0500 (Tue, 29 Jun 2010) | 1 line
note that byte strings can be raw, too #9114
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 7df0c2b..aa30173 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
.. productionlist::
bytesliteral: `bytesprefix`(`shortbytes` | `longbytes`)
- bytesprefix: "b" | "B"
+ bytesprefix: "b" | "B" | "br" | "Br" | "bR" | "BR"
shortbytes: "'" `shortbytesitem`* "'" | '"' `shortbytesitem`* '"'
longbytes: "'''" `longbytesitem`* "'''" | '"""' `longbytesitem`* '"""'
shortbytesitem: `shortbyteschar` | `bytesescapeseq`
@@ -431,16 +431,16 @@
characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash
itself, or the quote character.
-String 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, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` escapes in raw strings are not
-treated specially.
-
Bytes literals are always prefixed with ``'b'`` or ``'B'``; they produce an
instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type. They
may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater
must be expressed with escapes.
+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.
+
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
"quote" is the character used to open the string, i.e. either ``'`` or ``"``.)
@@ -545,9 +545,9 @@
String literal concatenation
----------------------------
-Multiple adjacent string literals (delimited by whitespace), possibly using
-different quoting conventions, are allowed, and their meaning is the same as
-their concatenation. Thus, ``"hello" 'world'`` is equivalent to
+Multiple adjacent string or bytes literals (delimited by whitespace), possibly
+using different quoting conventions, are allowed, and their meaning is the same
+as their concatenation. Thus, ``"hello" 'world'`` is equivalent to
``"helloworld"``. This feature can be used to reduce the number of backslashes
needed, to split long strings conveniently across long lines, or even to add
comments to parts of strings, for example::