[Python-ideas] raw strings

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 23:27:15 CEST 2007


On 10/1/07, Clark Maurer <cmaurer at slickedit.com> wrote:

> Quote doubling is only for the quote you started the raw string with.

Understood.

> This would be consistent with C#, REXX, and Slick-C. It sounds like
> you've never used a language with this construct. It's very natural to
> me.

Even python does this, with %% on format strings -- but it is only
natural to someone who already has some experience programming.

-jJ



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