On 20 April 2017 at 22:43, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 16:01, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2017-04-20, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> > There _is_ a "universal solution"; it's called a Hollerith constant. :-) >> >> Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a _long_ time -- probably about 45 >> years. I think the first FORTAN implementation I used was WATFIV, >> which had just introduced the character type. But, books/classes on >> FORTRAN all still covered Hollerith constants. > > The IMAP protocol uses a similar kind of construct (the length is > enclosed in braces) > > Even ignoring the maintenance difficulty, I don't think it's possible to > syntax highlight something like that on most common editors. > > The best solution I can think of is to have a text editor designed to > parse a string literal, spawn a nested editor with the unescaped > contents of that string literal, and then re-escape it back to place in > the code. If we had that, then we wouldn't even need raw strings.
Yes exactly, it would be cool to have such a satellite app which can escape and unescape strings according to rules. And which can also convert unicode literals to their ascii analogues and back on the fly, this would very useful for programming. Probably it is a good idea to even include such thing in Python package. So it would be a small standalone app running parallel with text editor making it to copy paste strings. Mikhail -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
