Personally I'd expect these two lines to do the same thing, whatever that
thing is:
path = 'C:\'
path = ('C:\')
Barney
On Sat, 28 May 2022 at 12:59, Damian Shaw <damian.peter.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>>
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