On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:30:52AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > I wonder how we managed to survive all these years with > the existing consistent and concise definition of the > raw-unicode-escape codec ;-) > > There are two options: > > * no one really uses Unicode raw strings nowadays > > * none of the existing users has ever stumbled across the > "problem case" that triggered all this > > Both ways, we're discussing a non-issue.
Sure, it's a non-issue for Python 2.x. However, when Python 3 comes along, and all strings are Unicode, there will likely be a lot more users stumbling into the problem case. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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