Mark Dickinson <[email protected]> added the comment:
[Raymond]
> Also, it gets in the way of the end-user strategy of "backslash anything that
> looks special"
That's not a good strategy in the first place, though: adding an extra
backslash for something that doesn't need to be escaped isn't benign - it's
usually an error, since it puts that backslash into the resulting string.
>>> "abc\`d" == "abc`d"
False
In other words, it seems to me that getting in the way of this broken end-user
strategy is a *good* thing, since it warns of possible mistakes.
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