April 1, 2018
9:31 a.m.
On 1 April 2018 at 19:24, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
Since the entire point of the Py3 u"..." prefix is compatibility with Py2, the semantics have to be retained. There's no point supporting ur"..." in Py3 if it's not going to produce the same result as in Py2.
Right, "ur" strings were originally taken out in Python 3.0, and then we made the decision *not* to add them back when PEP 414 restored other uses of the "u" prefix: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/#exclusion-of-raw-unicode-literals Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia