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[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation [Python-Dev] Utopian String InterpolationGuido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:31:02 -0500
> Yeah, I understood that. I just don't understand why it isn't like most
> other things in Python. Python tends to be strict about things that are
> likely mistakes, rather than helping you "debug them" after passing them
> through silently.
> 
>  Paul Prescod

The "why" is that long ago Python didn't have raw strings but it did
have regular expressions.  I thought it would be painful to have to
double all backslashes used for the regex syntax.

It would be hard to change this policy now.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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