On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just checked in r62163 with this change:
> > - rc = os.system(r"ml64 -c -Foms\uptable.obj
> ms\uptable.asm")
> > + rc = os.system("ml64 -c -Foms\\uptable.obj
> ms\\uptable.asm")
> >
> > What should happen with raw unicode strings that contain a \u? The
> > old code above was generating:
> > SyntaxError: (unicode error) truncated \uXXXX
> >
> > Is that correct? Or should the \u be translated literally?
>
> Oops, there's a regression!!!
>
> In 2.x, \uDDDD and \UDDDDDDDD are interpreted as Unicode escapes in
> raw Unicode strings. That was a mistake, but we can't fix it (except
> when using "from __future__ import unicode_literals"). In 3.0, \u or
> \U in a raw string should have no special meaning -- it's just a
> backslash followed by 'u' or 'U'.
>
> This was fixed in 3.0a3. It seems to have reverted to the old (2.x)
> behavior in 3.0a4.
>
> THIS MUST BE FIXED!
Done in r62165.
>
>
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