17 Jan
2002
17 Jan
'02
5:31 a.m.
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. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)