On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:50:01 +0200, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> (SD) wrote: > >>SD> If I'm reading this page correctly, Python does behave as C++ does. >>Or at SD> least as Larch/C++ does: > >>SD> http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~leavens/larchc++manual/lcpp_47.html > > They call them `non-standard escape sequences' for a reason: that they > are not in standard C++. > > test.cpp: > char* temp = "abc\yz"; > > TEMP> g++ -c test.cpp > test.cpp:1:1: warning: unknown escape sequence '\y'
Isn't that a warning, not a fatal error? So what does temp contain? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
