Vedran Čačić <ved...@gmail.com> added the comment: Not very useful, surely (now that we have hex escapes). [I'd still retain \0 as a special case, since it really is useful.] But a lot more useful than a hundred backreferences.
And I'm as a matter of principle opposed to changing something that's been in the language for decades for the benefit of someone that's by their own words "just learned Python". [Changing documentation is fine.] They by definition don't see the whole picture. Now that we don't have a BDFL anymore, I think it's vitally important to have some principles such as this one. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38582> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
