[Python-Dev] @[decorator]

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:01, Jewett, Jim J wrote:
> Edward C. Jones:
> 
> > There are three 7-bit ASCII characters not used in
> > Python: "@", "$", and "?".  Please don't waste one ...
> 
> Perhaps even fewer;  "$" is used by the simplified-string 
> module that seems likely to go in.

But currently only in the literal, so it's not actually special... yet. 
There have been discussions about promoting '$' as a prefix to string
literals (a la r-strings and u-strings), but nothing concrete has been
proposed.

-Barry

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