On 10/1/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
Guido van Rossum schrieb:
(Clark: I don't want to discuss this offline. On the list it goes.)
Quote doubling isn't a viable option for Python -- I don't believe it's sane to have both backslashes and quote-double as escape mechanisms.
Of course in C# the trailing \ is the main use case -- after all it's a Microsoft product.
While for some Windows users this may be a nuisance, I don't think they are in the majority amongst Python users.
But why upset them? What is the reason for not allowing trailing backslashes in raw strings, except more code in the tokenizer?
Well, everybody else who is tokenizing Python will also have to have more code. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)