"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com> writes:
> Major problem: \ is escape char in strings. eval('a\b') would not do
> what you expect.
Also, a \ as the last token on a line already has a meaning (continue
on the next line). Not worth the hassle.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)