On 5/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I understand the other reason (inclusion of non-ASCII > > characters in raw strings) and I reluctantly agree with it. > > I actually disagree with that. It is fairly easy to include non-ASCII > characters in a raw Unicode string - just type them in.
That violates the convention used in many places that source code should only contain printable ASCII, and all non-ASCII or unprintable characters should be written using \x or \u escapes. > Or, if that > fails, use string concatenation with a non-raw string: > > r"foo\uhallo" "\u20ac" r"welt" That makes for pretty unreadable source code though. Looking for a third opinion, -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
