[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

2002年1月16日 17:43:48 -0500 (EST)

On 2002年1月16日, Paul Prescod wrote:
>Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>>...
>>>> The "why" is that long ago Python didn't have raw strings but it did
>> have regular expressions. I thought it would be painful to have to
>> double all backslashes used for the regex syntax.
>>Aha.
>>> It would be hard to change this policy now.
>>How about an optional warning which, after a year or so, would be turned
>on by default, and then a year or so after that would be an error? 

Such a warning might prove to be a useful debugging tool,
even if the language never changed.
Maybe it would be a useful addition to PyChecker or some similar tool ?
foot-in-the-door-ly,
	/Paul