On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> 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. Yeah, it would be like, say, changing the semantics of integer division. Sometimes it's better to do what's right than what's easy. /Paul
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