A 'u' or 'b' prefix may be followed by an 'r' prefix. The Python 3 documentation states: Bytes literals are always prefixed with 'b' or 'B'; they produce an instance of the bytes type instead of the str type. They may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater must be expressed with escapes. More @Wikipedia
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