Hi Tim, On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:21:29PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > > we reverted to repr/eval, which is quite slower (and actually not > > guaranteed to > > work across Python versions either: string escapes sometimes change). > > Really? The precise rules str's __repr__ uses for which escapes to > produce certainly change, but I don't recall any case outside > Unicodeland where a new string escape was ever introduced.
My mistake, I seemed to remember something along these lines but you are obviously right. Python 1.5.2 reads all escapes of a recent Python just fine. Armin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
