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Minor improvements to faq/programming.rst
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Use literal syntax for exception names in header
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Expand Up @@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ There are various techniques.
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Is there an equivalent to Perl's chomp() for removing trailing newlines from strings?
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Is there an equivalent to Perl's ``chomp()`` for removing trailing newlines from strings?
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You can use ``S.rstrip("\r\n")`` to remove all occurrences of any line
terminator from the end of the string ``S`` without removing other trailing
Expand All @@ -1005,8 +1005,8 @@ Since this is typically only desired when reading text one line at a time, using
``S.rstrip()`` this way works well.


Is there a scanf() or sscanf() equivalent?
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Is there a ``scanf()`` or ``sscanf()`` equivalent?
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Not as such.

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than C's ``sscanf`` and better suited for the task.


What does 'UnicodeDecodeError' or 'UnicodeEncodeError' error mean?
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What does ``UnicodeDecodeError`` or ``UnicodeEncodeError`` error mean?
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See the :ref:`unicode-howto`.

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>>> r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
File "<stdin>", line 1
r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
^
^
SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)
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On main, this would also result in showing the suggestion:

SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1); perhaps you escaped the end quote?


There are several workarounds for this. One is to use regular strings and double
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