[Python-Dev] Re: User extendable literal modifiers ?!

[Greg Ewing]

Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan@synaptics-uk.com>:

>   - Rational numbers.    $r"123/234"
>   - Regular expressions. $/"foo.*bar"
>   - Dates and times.     $t"2002-09-27 11:38"
>   - Hostnames and ports. $h"www.google.com:80"

This strikes me as ugly. There doesn't seem to be much, if any,
syntactical advantage over using a constructor:

   Rat("123/234")
   Regex("foo.*bar")
   Date("2002-09-27 11:38")
   Port("www.google.com:80")

These look cleaner and easier to read to me.

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