On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 12:11 MRAB Names in Python are case-sensitive, yet the string prefixes are > case-/insensitive/. > > Why?
IIRC we copied this from C for numeric suffixes (0l and 0L are the same; also hex digits and presumably 0XA == 0xa) and then copied that for string prefixes without thinking about it much. I guess it’s too late to change. —Guido -- --Guido (mobile)
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