Interesting, so thats where this comes from. Of course the problem is that I thought that a raw string was a different animal than a regular string (i.e. truely "raw" where no characters are special, except of course the closing quote) so parsing consistency is surprising to an end user (who has an overly-simplistic mental model).
I'm sure that this choice greatly simplifies the internals of Python. As an end user, of course, I couldn't care less about this (just as my end users don't care about my problems :-) ). I would still prefer my still-bloody raw strings, but I can live with the slightly-cooked ones now that I've got it... Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
