On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 05:05, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-05-28 16:03, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2022-05-28 13:17, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> >> 28.05.22 14:57, Damian Shaw пише:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> How do you know that it is at the end of a string?
> >>
> > It would also affect triple-quoted strings.
> >
> > Here's an idea: prefix rr ("really raw") that would treat all
> > backslashes literally.
> > Here's something I've just realised.
>
> Names in Python are case-sensitive, yet the string prefixes are
> case-/insensitive/.
>
> Why?Technically they're not, but there are aliases. Kinda like threading.currentThread(). ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/7PCCF24SSFJQKPA46PGF52XTROQM3QYT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
