Backslash frowned upon?

[J. Clifford Dyer]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 03:25 -0700, wxPythoner at gmail.com wrote:
> Why is the  \  backslash character frowned upon? Can I still use it in
> Python 3.0 to achieve the same thing it was designed to do?
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> 

Many people think it looks ugly, but it still works, and there are times
when nothing else will do, so it should continue to work for the
foreseeable future.

Cheers,
Cliff