On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 16:01, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-04-20, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > There _is_ a "universal solution"; it's called a Hollerith constant. :-) > > Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a _long_ time -- probably about 45 > years. I think the first FORTAN implementation I used was WATFIV, > which had just introduced the character type. But, books/classes on > FORTRAN all still covered Hollerith constants.
The IMAP protocol uses a similar kind of construct (the length is enclosed in braces) Even ignoring the maintenance difficulty, I don't think it's possible to syntax highlight something like that on most common editors. The best solution I can think of is to have a text editor designed to parse a string literal, spawn a nested editor with the unescaped contents of that string literal, and then re-escape it back to place in the code. If we had that, then we wouldn't even need raw strings. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
