[Python-ideas] PEP 8: raw strings & regular expressions

[Guido van Rossum]

It's not going to be codified in PEP 8.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2015, at 06:56 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
>
> >In principle, there is no reason why *both* of these groups
> >of users can't use one tool and be happy.  I propose to
> >establish a convention in PEP 8, explaining that, while both
> >literals are semantically equivalent,
> >
> >- r'..' strings *should* be used for regexps,
> >
> >- R'..' strings *should* be used for unstyled raw strings,
> >
> >and tools *should* treat them as such.
> >
> >All of this is merely about codifying the current status quo.
>
> What about all the regexps that are written without raw strings?  Won't
> PEP 8
> codification shame everyone into turn them into raw strings when they
> really
> don't need to?
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>
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