[Python-Dev] Go \x yourself

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:

    TP> The new rule is the same as Perl uses for \x escapes in -w
    TP> mode, except that Python will raise ValueError at compile-time
    TP> for an invalid \x escape: an \x escape is of the form

    TP>     \xhh

    TP> where h is a hex digit.  That's it.

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