On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Paul Prescod wrote: >Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>... >> >> 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. > >Aha. > >> It would be hard to change this policy now. > >How about an optional warning which, after a year or so, would be turned >on by default, and then a year or so after that would be an error? Such a warning might prove to be a useful debugging tool, even if the language never changed. Maybe it would be a useful addition to PyChecker or some similar tool ? foot-in-the-door-ly, /Paul
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