On 23.02.15 04:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
I agree, the fault is primarily with Windows. But I've seen similar
issues when people use /-\| for box drawing and framing and such;
Windows paths are by far the most common case of this, but not the
sole.
There is also issues with regular expressions.
Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> That said, though, there's probably a lot of code out there that
>> depends on backslashes being non-special, so it's quite probably
>> something that can't be changed. But it'd be nice to be able to turn
>> on a warning for it.
>
> If you're moti
Chris Angelico writes:
> That said, though, there's probably a lot of code out there that
> depends on backslashes being non-special, so it's quite probably
> something that can't be changed. But it'd be nice to be able to turn
> on a warning for it.
If you're motivated to see such warnings, an
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Right. Text strings literals are documented to work that way
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str>,
> which refers the reader to the language reference
> https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.ht
On 02/22/2015 09:41 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Chris Angelico writes:
In Python, unrecognized escape sequences are treated literally,
without (as far as I can tell) any sort of warning or anything.
Right. Text strings literals are documented to work that way
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdt
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> Why is it that Python interprets them this way, and doesn't even give
>> a warning?
>
> Because the interpretation of those literals is unambiguous and correct.
And it also implies that never, in the entire infinite
On 02/22/2015 09:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
In Python, unrecognized escape sequences are treated literally,
without (as far as I can tell) any sort of warning or anything. This
can mask bugs, especially when Windows path names are used:
'C:\sqlite\Beginner.db'
'C:\\sqlite\\Beginner.db'
'c:\
Chris Angelico writes:
> In Python, unrecognized escape sequences are treated literally,
> without (as far as I can tell) any sort of warning or anything.
Right. Text strings literals are documented to work that way
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequence-type-str>,
which r
In Python, unrecognized escape sequences are treated literally,
without (as far as I can tell) any sort of warning or anything. This
can mask bugs, especially when Windows path names are used:
>>> 'C:\sqlite\Beginner.db'
'C:\\sqlite\\Beginner.db'
>>> 'c:\sqlite\beginner.db'
'c:\\sqlite\x08eginner.
