MRAB wrote:
Regular expressions and replacement strings have their own escaping mechanism, which also uses backslashes.
This seems like a misfeature to me. It makes sense for a regular expression to give special meanings to backslash sequences, because it's a sublanguage with its own syntax. But I can't see any earthly reason to do that with the *replacement* string, which is just data. It looks like a feature that's been blindly copied over from Perl without thinking about whether it makes sense in Python. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
