On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:03:14 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > if another escape character ever has to be > added to the language, that may change the semantics of previously > correct strings.
And that's the only argument in favour of prohibiting non-special backslash sequences I've seen yet that is even close to convincing. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list