New submission from Andrew Dalke: The reference manual documentation for raw string literals says
"""Note also that a single backslash followed by a newline is interpreted as those two characters as part of the string, *not* as a line continuation.""" This is not the observed behavior. >>> s = """ABC\ ... 123""" >>> s 'ABC123' >>> Line continuations are ignored by triple quoted strings. In addition, the reference manual documentation for "\x" escapes says | ``\xhh`` | Character with hex value *hh* | (4,5) | where footnote (4) stays Unlike in Standard C, at most two hex digits are accepted. However, the implementation requires exactly two hex digits: >>> "\x41" 'A' >>> "\x4." ValueError: invalid \x escape >>> "\x4" ValueError: invalid \x escape >>> ---------- components: Documentation messages: 61484 nosy: dalke severity: minor status: open title: string literal documentation differs from implementation versions: Python 2.5 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1889> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
