On 10/1/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/1/07, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/1/07, Clark Maurer <cmaurer@slickedit.com> wrote:
The current implementation doesn't allow for a trailing backslash in the string.
I believe that will change in Python 3.0.
The discussion is here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-May/007684.html
And Ron Adam's current patch is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue1720390
On 10/1/07, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
I'm still against actually. That's why the patch hasn't been applied yet.
Sorry, my mistake. I read the thread as being somewhat in support of the change.
I admit I've been wobbling a lot on this.
Anyway, to the OP, if you want to make this happen, you should help Ron out with his patch. (Code has a much better chance of convincing Guido than anything else does.)
Not in this case. It's more the philosophical distinction -- are raw strings meant primarily to hold regexes or Windows pathnames? These two use cases have opposite requirements for trailing backslash treatment. I know the original use case that caused them to be added to the language is regexes, and that's still the only one I use on a regular basis. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)