> Using double backslashes won't cause that reaction:
>
> os.stat("c:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll")
Please refer to the subject. We are talking about raw strings.
>> Windows path names are one of the two primary applications of raw
>> strings (the other being regexes).
>
> IMHO the primary use case are regexps
It's not a matter of opinion. It's a statistical fact that these
are the two cases where people use raw strings most.
> and for those you'd
> definitely want to be able to put Unicode characters into your
> expressions.
For regular expressions, you don't need them as part of the
string literal syntax: The re parser itself could support \u,
just like it supports \x today.
> BTW, if you use ur"..." for your expressions today (which you should
> if you parse text), then nothing will change when removing the
> 'u' prefix in Py3k.
How do you know? Py3k hasn't been released, yet.
Regards,
Martin
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