On Apr 6, 6:56 am, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > One of the biggest nuisances for programmers, just beneath date/time > APIs in the pantheon of annoyances, is that we are constantly dealing > with escaping/encoding/formatting issues.
[OT for this list] If you run $ find /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/ -name '*.gz'|xargs zgrep '\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\' you can get quite a few results. [Suitable assumptions: linux box with emacs installed] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list