On 01/11/2010 03:30, Yingjie Lan wrote:
All backslashes in raw string literals are
interpreted literally.
(seehttp://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html):
All backslashes in syntactically-correct raw string
literals are interpreted literally.
That's a good way of putting it.
Syntactical correctness obviously depends on the syntax specification.
To cancle the special meaning of ALL backlashes in a raw string literal
makes a lot of sense to me. Currently, the behavior of backslashes
in a raw string literal is rather complicated I think.
In fact, the backlashes can still escape quotes in a raw string,
and one the other hand, it also remains in the string -- I'm
wondering what kind of use case is there to justify such a behavior?
Surely, my experience is way too limited to make a solid judgement,
I Hope others would shed light on this issue.
It has been discussed briefly here: http://bugs.python.org/issue1271
According to msg56377, the behaviour is "optimal" for regular
expressions. Well, I use regular expressions a lot, and I still think
it's a nuisance!
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