On Thu, May 15, 2003, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > Guido van Rossum writes: >> >> Agreed, but you're still using two levels of quoting, and with >> anything less, "foo.bar" will also match a module named "foolbar". > > Agreed. "foo\.bar" will match "foolbar" as well, but 'foo\.bar' only > matches "foo.bar". The advantage of single quotes is that you're not > escaping the escape characters with themselves; what's inside the > quotes is simple RE syntax, so you only need to think about one of the > layers at a time. The point is that with current behavior you can use foo.bar on the command line and not worry, because "." is a meta character in neither shell nor Python. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93
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