Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > I guess to make ur"" have a meaning at all, we'd need to go > > the Java preprocessor way here, i.e. scan the string *only* > > for \uXXXX sequences, decode these and convert the rest as-is > > to Unicode ordinals. > > > > Would that be ok ? > > Read Tim's code (posted about 40 messages ago in this list). I did, but wasn't sure whether he was argueing for going the Java way... > Like Java, it interprets \u.... when the number of backslashes is odd, > but not when it's even. So \\u.... returns exactly that, while > \\\u.... returns two backslashes and a unicode character. > > This is nice and can be done regardless of whether we are going to > interpret other \ escapes or not. So I'll take that as: this is what we want in Python too :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 43 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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