New submission from Magnien Sebastien <s.magn...@gmail.com>:
The documentation reads : " The backslash (\) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character. " However, 'n' does not "otherwise have a special meaning", nor does it represent a new line. The backslash character does in fact do two different things : 1) It removes special meanings from characters that have one (\\). 2) It assigns a special meaning to normal characters (\n). A better description would therefore be : " The backslash (\) character is used to either escape characters that have a special meaning, such as backslash itself, or the quote character - or give special meaning to characters that do not have one, such as 'n', whose escapment '\n' means 'newline'. " ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 335205 nosy: Magnien Sebastien, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Slight error in words in [ 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals ] type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35962> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
