Carl Banks wrote:
IOW it's an error-prone mess. It would be better if Python (like C) treated \ consistently as an escape character. (And in raw strings, consistently as a literal.)
Agreed. For one thing, if another escape character ever has to be
added to the language, that may change the semantics of previously
correct strings. If "\" followed by a non-special character is treated
as an error, that doesn't happen.
John Nagle
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