[Python-3000] Raw strings containing \u or \U (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 17 02:48:11 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm still on the fence about the trailing backslash; I personally prefer to write Windows paths using regular strings and doubled backslashes.

Maybe we should have a special w"..." string in the Windows version of Python for pathnames.

It would raise a SyntaxError in non-Windows Pythons, thus discouraging people trying to use Windows pathnames in cross-platform code. :-)

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