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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 11 01:34:11 CEST 2007

On 5/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>> I actually disagree with that. It is fairly easy to include non-ASCII >> characters in a raw Unicode string - just type them in. > > That violates the convention used in many places that source code > should only contain printable ASCII, and all non-ASCII or unprintable > characters should be written using \x or \u escapes.

Following that convention: How do you get a non-ASCII byte into a raw byte string in Python 2.x? You can't - so why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character into a raw Unicode string?

Fair enough.

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