Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote:
[snip]
My point of view is that
every language has *some* warts; Python just has a bit fewer than most.
It would have been nice, I should think, if this wart had been "fixed"
in Python 3, as I do consider it to be a minor wart.
And if anyone had cared enough to raise it a couple of years back, it
possibly might have been.
My preference would've been that a backslash followed by A-Z, a-z, or
0-9 is special, but a backslash followed by any other character is just
the character, except for backslash followed by a newline, which
suppresses the newline.
I would also have preferred a backslash in a raw string to always be a
literal.
Ah well, something for Python 4.x. :-)
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