python 2.7 - Are """ syntactic sugar for raw strings? -

from tutorial:

print """ usage: thingy [options]      -h                        display usage message      -h hostname               hostname connect """ 

produces following output:

usage: thingy [options]      -h                        display usage message      -h hostname               hostname connect 

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hello = r"this rather long string containing\n\ several lines of text in c."  print hello 

would print:

this rather long string containing\n\ several lines of text in c. 

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which suggests me """ notation syntactic sugar raw strings. new python, searching documentation not option me.

are """ text """ , r" text "completely identical semantically?

no

print """a\nb""" print "----" print r"a\nb" >>>  b ---- a\nb 

unless use r or r prefix escape sequences interpreted. straight out of documentation:

unless "r" or "r" prefix present, escape sequences in strings interpreted according rules similar used standard c.

you should reading docs, they're great resource , community lucky people have contributed make python , it's common libraries documented. (in opinion).