Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > It seems that escape is pretty dumb. The documentations says that > re.escape escapes all non-alphanumeric characters, and it does that > faithfully. It would seem more useful to have a list of meta-characters > and just escape those. This is more true in Py3k when str can have > thousands of possible characters that could be considered alphanumeric.
The usual convention is to escape everything that is ASCII and not A-Za-z0-9_, in case other punctuation becomes special in the future. But I agree -- escaping just the actual special characters makes the most sense. Russ __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2650> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
