[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib warnings.py,1.19,1.20

[Aahz]

On Thu, May 15, 2003, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
>> 
>> Agreed, but you're still using two levels of quoting, and with
>> anything less, "foo.bar" will also match a module named "foolbar".
> 
> Agreed.  "foo\.bar" will match "foolbar" as well, but 'foo\.bar' only
> matches "foo.bar".  The advantage of single quotes is that you're not
> escaping the escape characters with themselves; what's inside the
> quotes is simple RE syntax, so you only need to think about one of the
> layers at a time.

The point is that with current behavior you can use foo.bar on the
command line and not worry, because "." is a meta character in neither
shell nor Python.
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