[Python-Dev] \u and \U escapes in raw unicode string literals (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 11 16:30:33 CEST 2007

On 5/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Windows path names are one of the two primary applications of raw strings (the other being regexes).

I disagree with this use case; the r"..." notation was not invented for this purpose. I won't compromise the escaping of quotes to accommodate it. Nevertheless I think that \u and \U should lose their special-ness in 3.0.

I'd like to hear from anyone who has access to real code that uses \u or \U in a raw unicode string.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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