Paul Svensson wrote: > > 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. Depending on how you see it, an "unrecognized escape sequence" is not an escape sequence to begin with :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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