[Python-Dev] \u and \U escapes in raw unicode string literals (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 11 03:30:37 CEST 2007
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
why should you be able to get a non-ASCII character into a raw Unicode string?
The analogous question would be why can't you get a non-Unicode character into a raw Unicode string. That wouldn't make sense, since Unicode strings can't even hold non-Unicode characters (or at least they're not meant to).
But it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to put Unicode characters into a raw Unicode string. After all, if it only contains ASCII characters there's no need for it to be a Unicode string in the first place.
-- Greg
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