[Python-3000] Raw strings containing \u or \U

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I'm still on the fence about the trailing backslash; I personally
> prefer to write Windows paths using regular strings and doubled
> backslashes.

Maybe we should have a special w"..." string in the Windows
version of Python for pathnames.

It would raise a SyntaxError in non-Windows Pythons, thus
discouraging people trying to use Windows pathnames in
cross-platform code. :-)

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