On 1 April 2018 at 19:24, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since the entire point of the Py3 u"..." prefix is compatibility with > Py2, the semantics have to be retained. There's no point supporting > ur"..." in Py3 if it's not going to produce the same result as in Py2.
Right, "ur" strings were originally taken out in Python 3.0, and then we made the decision *not* to add them back when PEP 414 restored other uses of the "u" prefix: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/#exclusion-of-raw-unicode-literals Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/