[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: - out of date status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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' or 'R': When a byte literal is prefixed with both 'r' or 'R' and 'b' or 'B', the b must precede the r, as in: 'Br', 'bR', or 'BR' and not 'Rb', 'rB', or 'RB'. -- nosy: +j.chadwick type: - enhancement Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25064/stringByteLiteralBR.docx ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 prefixed with a letter 'r' or 'R';... But that would lead you to believe that to get raw byte strings you should use rbfoo. In fact, that's a SyntaxError in Python 2.6+ and Python 3. What *does* work though is brfoo. Either Python should accept both spellings (harder) or the documentation should make it clear that the 'b' must preceded the 'r'. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 150936 nosy: barry, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: raw byte strings are described in a confusing way versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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? :) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13744] raw byte strings are described in a confusing way
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 3.3, I still think we need to fix the documentation to remove the confusion for stable releases. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13744 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
