Tim Peters wrote:
>
> [MAL]
> > ...
> > The conversion goes as follows:
> > ยท for single characters (and this includes all \XXX sequences
> > except \uXXXX), take the ordinal and interpret it as Unicode
> > ordinal for \uXXXX sequences, insert the Unicode character
> > with ordinal 0xXXXX instead
>
> Perfect!
Thanks :-)
> [about "raw" Unicode strings]
> > ...
> > Not sure whether we really need to make this even more complicated...
> > The \uXXXX strings look ugly, adding a few \\\\ for e.g. REs or
> > filenames won't hurt much in the context of those \uXXXX monsters :-)
>
> Alas, this won't stand over the long term. Eventually people will write
> Python using nothing but Unicode strings -- "regular strings" will
> eventurally become a backward compatibility headache <0.7 wink>. IOW,
> Unicode regexps and Unicode docstrings and Unicode formatting ops ...
> nothing will escape. Nor should it.
>
> I don't think it all needs to be done at once, though -- existing languages
> usually take years to graft in gimmicks to cover all the fine points. So,
> happy to let raw Unicode strings pass for now, as a relatively minor point,
> but without agreeing it can be ignored forever.
Agreed... note that you could also write your own codec for just this
reason and then use:
u = unicode('....\u1234...\...\...','raw-unicode-escaped')
Put that into a function called 'ur' and you have:
u = ur('...\u4545...\...\...')
which is not that far away from ur'...' w/r to cosmetics.
> > ...
> > BTW, if you want to type in UTF-8 strings and have them converted
> > to Unicode, you can use the standard:
> >
> > u = unicode('...string with UTF-8 encoded characters...','utf-8')
>
> That's what I figured, and thanks for the confirmation.
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