>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes: TP> The new rule is the same as Perl uses for \x escapes in -w TP> mode, except that Python will raise ValueError at compile-time TP> for an invalid \x escape: an \x escape is of the form TP> \xhh TP> where h is a hex digit. That's it. +1