On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Philipp A. <flying-sh...@web.de> wrote:
> i’ll patiently await clarification about this, and again: sorry for > sounding demanding :( > The explanation is honestly that the current approach is the most straightforward for the implementation (it's pretty hard to intercept the string literal before escapes have been processed) and nobody cares enough about the edge cases to force the implementation to jump through more hoops. I really don't think this discussion should be reopened. If you disagree, please start a new thread on python-ideas. Everybody: please don't follow up to python-dev. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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