[Python-3000] Escaping in raw strings (was Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing) (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu May 3 20:40:18 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

On 5/3/07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

On Thursday 03 May 2007, Georg Brandl wrote: > Is that something that can be agreed upon without a PEP?

I expect this to be at least somewhat controversial, so a PEP is warranted. I'd like to see it fixed, though. It's too late for a new PEP.

It wouldn't be too late for a 2.6 PEP, would it? However, I'm not going to champion this.

It certainly is controversial; how would you write a regexp that matches a single or double quote using r"..." or r'...'?

You'd have to concatenate two string literals...

Georg

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