Eric V. Smith wrote:
I assume the intent is to not throw away any information in the lexer, and give the parser full access to the original string. But that's just a guess.
More likely it's because the lexer is fairly dumb and can basically just recognise regular expressions. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
