On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >Paul Prescod wrote: >> >> The documentation says: >> >> "Unlike Standard , all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the >> string unchanged, i.e., the backslash is left in the string. (This >> behavior is useful when debugging: if an escape sequence is mistyped, >> the resulting output is more easily recognized as broken.)" >> >> That's a weird thing to say. What could be more helpful for debugging >> than a good old SyntaxError??? > >If there's nothing wrong with the escape why raise a >SyntaxError ? I would certainly claim that an unrecognized escape sequence _is_ wrong. /Paul
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