Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
[Raymond] > Also, it gets in the way of the end-user strategy of "backslash anything that > looks special" That's not a good strategy in the first place, though: adding an extra backslash for something that doesn't need to be escaped isn't benign - it's usually an error, since it puts that backslash into the resulting string. >>> "abc\`d" == "abc`d" False In other words, it seems to me that getting in the way of this broken end-user strategy is a *good* thing, since it warns of possible mistakes. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32912> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com