[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

[Guido van Rossum]

> Yeah, I understood that. I just don't understand why it isn't like most
> other things in Python. Python tends to be strict about things that are
> likely mistakes, rather than helping you "debug them" after passing them
> through silently.
> 
>  Paul Prescod

The "why" is that long ago Python didn't have raw strings but it did
have regular expressions.  I thought it would be painful to have to
double all backslashes used for the regex syntax.

It would be hard to change this policy now.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)