[Python-Dev] @[decorator] (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Jul 2 16:27:34 CEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:01, Jewett, Jim J wrote:

Edward C. Jones:

> There are three 7-bit ASCII characters not used in > Python: "@", "$", and "?". Please don't waste one ... Perhaps even fewer; "$" is used by the simplified-string module that seems likely to go in.

But currently only in the literal, so it's not actually special... yet. There have been discussions about promoting '$' as a prefix to string literals (a la r-strings and u-strings), but nothing concrete has been proposed.

-Barry

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