On Feb 26, 8:45 am, rmano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, 2to3.py should warn when a raw string (not unicode) with \u in
> it, I think.
> I tried it and it seems to ignore the problem...
Python 3.0a3+ (py3k:61229, Mar 4 2008, 21:38:15)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> r"\u"
'\\u'
>>> r"\uparrow"
'\\uparrow'
>>> r"\u005c"
'\\u005c'
>>> r"\N{REVERSE SOLIDUS}"
'\\N{REVERSE SOLIDUS}'
>>> "\u005c"
'\\'
>>> "\N{REVERSE SOLIDUS}"
'\\'
2to3.py may be ignoring a problem, but existing raw 8-bit string
literals containing a '\u' aren't going to be it. If anything is going
to have a problem with conversion to Py3k at this point, it is raw
Unicode literals that contain a Unicode escape.
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