[Python-ideas] Make non-meaningful backslashes illegal in string literals

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2015, at 22:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Not sure what you're saying here. Python already has those.

Er, so it does. I tried it in the interactive interpreter (it turns out,
on python 2.7, with what was therefore a byte string literal, which I
didn't realize when I tried it), and it didn't work, and then I searched
online to figure out where I remembered it from and it seemed to be a
perl thing.