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[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.2463.1343048808.4697.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with
> ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you
> get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly
> generally available keyboards that have those keys.

The same was true of "languages that use full ASCII".  ASR-33s didn't 
support full ASCII.  Neither did punched cards.  All in good time.