On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:28:01PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 11/15/2021 5:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> >In another thread, Serhiy already suggested we ban invisible control
> >characters (other than whitespace) in comments and strings.
> 
> He said in string *literals*.  One would put them in stromgs by using 
> visible escape sequences.

Thanks Terry for the clarification, of course I didn't mean to imply 
that we should ban control characters in strings completely. Only actual 
control characters embedded in string literals in the source, just as we 
already currently ban them outside of comments and strings.


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Steve
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