[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@beopen.com
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:26:43 -0400 (EDT)


Ka-Ping Yee writes:

I would have called "\xgh" a SyntaxError too, but Guido argued convincingly that it's consistently ValueError for bad literals.

I understand the idea about bad literals. I don't think that's what this is.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member