Guido van Rossum wrote: > I'm still on the fence about the trailing backslash; I personally > prefer to write Windows paths using regular strings and doubled > backslashes.
Maybe we should have a special w"..." string in the Windows version of Python for pathnames. It would raise a SyntaxError in non-Windows Pythons, thus discouraging people trying to use Windows pathnames in cross-platform code. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
