On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:17 PM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mea culpa. I had not my head on my shoulders. > Inputing if working fine, it returns "text" correctly. > > However, and this is something different, I'm a little > bit surprised, input() does not handle escaped characters > (\u, \U). > Workaround: encode() and decode() as "raw-unicode-escape".
It's the exact same thing. They're a backslash followed by a letter U. However, if your stdin is set to (say) UTF-8, then bytes that represent non-ASCII characters will be correctly translated, eliminating any need for code-style escapes. Allowing your users to put escaped Unicode characters into their input opens up a huge morass - do they have to double every backslash? what if they actually wanted "\", "u", etc? etc? etc? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
