On 10/05/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > I just discovered that, in all versions of Python as far back as I > have access to (2.0), \uXXXX escapes are interpreted inside raw > unicode strings. Thus: [...] > Does anyone remember why it is done this way? The reference manual > describes this behavior, but doesn't give an explanation: My memory is so dim as to be more speculation than anything else, but I suspect it's simply because there's no other way of including characters outside the ASCII range in a raw string. Paul.
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