[Python-ideas] raw strings

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> (Clark: I don't want to discuss this offline. On the list it goes.)
> 
> Quote doubling isn't a viable option for Python -- I don't believe
> it's sane to have both backslashes and quote-double as escape
> mechanisms.
> 
> Of course in C# the trailing \ is the main use case -- after all it's
> a Microsoft product.
> 
> While for some Windows users this may be a nuisance, I don't think
> they are in the majority amongst Python users.

But why upset them? What is the reason for not allowing trailing
backslashes in raw strings, except more code in the tokenizer?

Georg

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