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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu May 10 20:53:38 CEST 2007

On 10/05/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I just discovered that, in all versions of Python as far back as I have access to (2.0), \uXXXX escapes are interpreted inside raw unicode strings. Thus: [...] Does anyone remember why it is done this way? The reference manual describes this behavior, but doesn't give an explanation:

My memory is so dim as to be more speculation than anything else, but I suspect it's simply because there's no other way of including characters outside the ASCII range in a raw string.

Paul.

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