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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed May 16 23:10:17 CEST 2007

On 5/16/07, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > That would be great! This will automatically turn \u1234 into 6 > characters, right?

I'm not exactly clear when the '\uxxxx' characters get converted. There isn't any conversion done in tokanize.c that I can see. It's primarily only concerned with finding the beginning and ending of the string at that point. It looks like everything between the beginning and end is just passed along "as is" and it's translated further later in the chain.

OK, I think that happens in a totally different place. But it also needs to be fixed. :-)

(I had said earlier tokanize.py, meant tokanize.c)

Well, actually, tokenize.py also needs adjustments to support this...

> Perhaps you could make the patch against the py3k-struni branch > instead of against the regular p3yk (sic) branch?

I can do that. :-)

Great!

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