[New-bugs-announce] [issue18568] Support \e escape code in strings

[Steven D'Aprano]

New submission from Steven D'Aprano:

I'm adding this so there is a record in the bug tracker for posterity. No action is needed except to close it as a "Won't Fix".

As per this discussion here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-June/021318.html

using \e as an escape code for ASCII ESC character might be nice to have, but it fails backwards compatibility and therefore must be ruled out.

(But perhaps could be re-visited in Python 4000?)

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 193776
nosy: stevenjd
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Support \e escape code in strings

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