title: Python3 Interpret string as Raw
body: <p>This is killing me. So I have a long string, validated in JSONlint, that only works when loaded as a raw string.</p>
  
  <pre><code>raw_string = r'...'
  normal_string = '...'
  normal_string = r'%s' % normal_string
  data = json.loads(raw_string) #&lt;== works
  data = json.loads(string) #&lt;== doesn't
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I cannot get the string to be interpreted as raw string as it runs. I believe there is something fishy about this string because there is an error no matter how the problem is approached. (encoding, decoding, etc) </p>
  
  <p>You can see the work here: <a href="https://repl.it/@dennis_pitt/Interpret-String-as-Raw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://repl.it/@dennis_pitt/Interpret-String-as-Raw</a></p>
  
  <p>Please point me in the right direction. Python3.5</p>