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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 12 00:51:26 CEST 2007

BTW, there's an easy work-around for this special case:

os.stat(os.path.join(r"c:\windows\system32", "user32.dll"))

No matter what the decision is, there are always work-arounds. The question is what language suits the users most. Being able to specify characters by ordinal IMO has much less value than the a consistent, concise definition of raw strings has.

I think it's nice that you can use forward slashes on Windows - makes writing code that works in both worlds (Unix and Windows) a lot easier.

But, as Thomas says: you can't. You may be able to do so when using the API directly, however, it fails if you pass the file name in a command line of some tool that takes /foo to mean a command line option "foo".

Regards. Martin

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