R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: To a pythonista, the perl behavior is counter-intuitive :)
That said, the behavior of r'\' *is* somewhat counter-intuitive. See issue 1271 for a fairly thorough exploration of why it is the way it is. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11793> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com