On Apr 6, 1:52 pm, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:28:19 -0700, rusi wrote: > > All this mess would vanish if the string-literal-starter and ender > > were different. > > You still need an escape character in order to be able to embed an > unbalanced end character. > > Tcl and PostScript use mirrored string delimiters (braces for Tcl, > parentheses for PostScript), which results in the worst of both worlds: > they still need an escape character (backslash, in both cases) but now you > can't match tokens with a regexp/DFA.
Yes. I hand it to you that I missed the case of explicitly unbalanced strings. But are not such cases rare? For example code such as: print '"' print str(something) print '"' could better be written as print '"%s"' % str(something) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
