[Python-Dev] Raw string syntax inconsistency (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jun 18 19:19:07 CEST 2012


On 6/18/2012 11:12 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Ok, banning ru"..." and ur"..." altogether is fine too (assuming it's fine with the originators of the PEP).

The original PEP never proposed ur or ru , only u/U.

It turns out that ur is problematical even in 2.x, as its meaning is changed by the future import. 2&3 code should skip the convenience of the r prefix and just use u and doubled \s. The PEP should probably say that.

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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