On Aug 10, 11:27 pm, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: > > But you're right, it's too late to change this now. > > Not really. There is a procedure for making non-backwards compatible > changes. If you care deeply enough about this, you could agitate for > Python 3.2 to raise a PendingDepreciation warning for "unexpected" escape > sequences like \z,
How does one do this? Not that I necessarily think that it is important enough a nit to break a lot of existing code. Also, if I "agitate for change", then in the future people might actually accurately accuse me of agitating for change, when typically I just come here for a good argument, and I provide a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition, but in return I receive merely the automatic gainsaying of any statement I make. |>ouglas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list