Martin Panter added the comment: According to that RFC section, the forward solidus is allowed to be in an escape sequence, but it is also allowed unescaped:
βAll Unicode characters may be placed within the quotation marks, except for the characters that must be escaped: quotation mark, reverse solidus, and the control characters (U+0000 through U+001F).β . . . unescaped = %x20-21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-10FFFF In general, escaping the forward solidus is not needed, and is easier to read. Apparently this escaping is a workaround for embedding JSON inside a HTML <script> element, where the sequence β</β is not allowed, and HTML itself does not allow escaping: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.2>. In that case, JSON like {markup: "<i>italic<\/i>"} would be escaped, but most cases still do not need escaping, such as {url: "http://example.net/"}. ---------- nosy: +vadmium _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23766> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
