[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Paul Svensson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> >Paul Prescod wrote:
> >>
> >> The documentation says:
> >>
> >> "Unlike Standard  , all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the
> >> string unchanged, i.e., the backslash is left in the string. (This
> >> behavior is useful when debugging: if an escape sequence is mistyped,
> >> the resulting output is more easily recognized as broken.)"
> >>
> >> That's a weird thing to say. What could be more helpful for debugging
> >> than a good old SyntaxError???
> >
> >If there's nothing wrong with the escape why raise a
> >SyntaxError ?
> 
> I would certainly claim that an unrecognized escape sequence _is_ wrong.

Depending on how you see it, an "unrecognized escape sequence" is 
not an escape sequence to begin with :-)

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