Tim Chase wrote: > to give it that perl/ruby-ish feel of terseness and obscurity.
Don't feel bad, you always have things like r'%s\%s' % (u'blah', u'blah') and so on. But of course, it's only the other guys who are evil / ugly / stupid. As the human torch says, "Flame On". :) [Full disclosure: I like ruby _and_ I like python (gasp!), and see no need to artificially criticize one or the other; I try rather to utilize the strengths of both.] Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list