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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat May 12 01:16:26 CEST 2007


I think I'm going to break my own rules and ask Martin to write up a PEP. Given the pragmatics that Windows pathnames are a common use case, I'm willing to let allow the trailing \ in the string. A regular expression containing a quote could be written using triple quotes, e.g. r"""(["'])[^"']*\1""". (A single " in a regular expression can always be rewritten as ["] AFAIK.)

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