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

Hrvoje Nikšić hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Mon May 14 12:40:40 CEST 2007

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 13:06 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> attributionpattern = re.compile(ur'(---?(?!-)|\u2014) *(?=[^ \n])')

But wouldn't it be just as handy to teach the re module about \u and \U, just as it already knows about \x (and \123 octals)?

And \n, \r, etc. Implementing \u in re is not only useful, but also consistent.

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