Aaron Sherman <a...@ajs.com> added the comment: Matthew, thank you for replying. I still think the primary issue is the potential for confusion between single digit escapes and backreferences, and the ease with which they could be addressed, but to cover what you said:
Quote: the normal way to handle "\41" + "1" is "\0411" That might be the way dictated by the limitations of escape expansion as it is now, but it's entirely non-intuitive and seems more like the "exciting" edge cases (and obfuscated code opportunities) in other languages than something Python would be proud of. With \41\e1 you would actually be able to tell, visually that the 1 does not get read by the code which reads the \41. This seems to me to be a serious win for maintainability. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8465> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
