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

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Sat May 12 02:42:54 CEST 2007

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:30:52AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I wonder how we managed to survive all these years with the existing consistent and concise definition of the raw-unicode-escape codec ;-) There are two options: * no one really uses Unicode raw strings nowadays * none of the existing users has ever stumbled across the "problem case" that triggered all this Both ways, we're discussing a non-issue.

Sure, it's a non-issue for Python 2.x. However, when Python 3 comes along, and all strings are Unicode, there will likely be a lot more users stumbling into the problem case.

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