That PR seems to make \' and \" not special in general right? I think this is a more limited proposal, to only change the behavior when \ is at the end of a string, so the only behavior difference would never receiving the error "SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal"
In which case there should be no backwards compatibility issue. Damian On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 12:20 PM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 28.05.22 12:22, Steven D'Aprano пише: > > Now that we have a new parser for CPython, can we fix the old gotcha > > that raw strings cannot end in a backslash? > > > > Its an FAQ and has come up again on the bug tracker. > > > > https://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#id26 > > > > https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/93314 > > I do not think that we can allow this, and it is not related to parser. > > Few years ago I experimented with such change: > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15217 > > You can see that it breaks even some stdlib code, and it will definitely > break many third-party packages and examples. Technically we can do > this, but the benefit is small in comparison with the cost. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/WWWRFQK4AG52GD3L6WT6QLRGTY2VQRQ2/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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