On Aug 10, 4:41 am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: > > [snip] > >> My point of view is that > >> every language has *some* warts; Python just has a bit fewer than most. > >> It would have been nice, I should think, if this wart had been "fixed" > >> in Python 3, as I do consider it to be a minor wart. > > > And if anyone had cared enough to raise it a couple of years back, it > > possibly might have been. > > My preference would've been that a backslash followed by A-Z, a-z, or > 0-9 is special, but a backslash followed by any other character is just > the character, except for backslash followed by a newline, which > suppresses the newline.
That would be reasonable; it'd match the behavior of regexps. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list