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

David Goodger goodger at python.org
Fri May 11 22:10:36 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum <guido python.org> writes: > I'd like to hear from anyone who has access to real code that uses > \u or \U in a raw unicode string.

David Goodger <goodger python.org> writes:

Docutils uses it in the docutils.parsers.rst.states module, Body class:

patterns = { 'bullet': ur'-+*\u2022\u2023\u2043', ... attributionpattern = re.compile(ur'(---?(?!-)|\u2014) *(?=[^ \n])')

Although admittedly, these don't have to be raw strings, since they don't contain backslashes as regexp syntax. They were made raw by reflex, because they contain regular expressions.

-- DG

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