constructing binary backslash-n

[Steve Holden]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:27:17 -0400, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>The only letters that have special meaning after a backslash are:
>>
>>a b f n r t v x
> 
> 
> Hm, why aren't they all used by repr? E.g.,
> 
>  >>> list('\a\b\f\n\r\t\v\x00')
>  ['\x07', '\x08', '\x0c', '\n', '\r', '\t', '\x0b', '\x00']
> 
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter

Probably the best question of the thread.

And the answer is "probably because nobody would recognize the escapes".

regards
  Steve