[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2013-10-13 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl added the comment: 3.3 is now released with both br and rb allowed, and in 2.7 the current text looks good enough for me. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: - out of date status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-03-29 Thread Joseph Chadwick
Joseph Chadwick josephholyhe...@gmail.com added the comment: The attached replaces the text for the documentation in 2.4.1 between the lexical definitions table and the escape sequence table. The only change is the following addition to the paragraph on string and byte literals prefixed by 'r'

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-03-29 Thread Joseph Chadwick
Joseph Chadwick josephholyhe...@gmail.com added the comment: I uploaded before making the final save, so the first document is incomplete. (that's embarrassing) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25065/stringByteLiteralBR.docx ___ Python

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-03-29 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Changes by Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file25064/stringByteLiteralBR.docx ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-03-29 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks for the contribution. Could you post your suggested wording as a plain text file? -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-03-29 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Actually it’s fine, we already have the text in your message :) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-01-13 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-01-09 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
New submission from Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org: The lexical analysis documentation says this: http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html?highlight=raw%20bytes Bytes literals are always prefixed with 'b' or 'B';... Both string and bytes literals may optionally be

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-01-09 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment: On Jan 09, 2012, at 03:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Either Python should accept both spellings +1. Been annoyed several times by this. The $64k question: is this a new feature or a bug? :)

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-01-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: The $64k question: is this a new feature or a bug? :) Most certainly a feature... -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744

[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way

2012-01-09 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Barry A. Warsaw ba...@python.org added the comment: On Jan 09, 2012, at 03:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: The $64k question: is this a new feature or a bug? :) Most certainly a feature... In that case, since we can only add the new prefixes to