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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Seth.Troisi, docs@python, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2011-05-29.16:36:52
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The fact that you have carefully think about which are escapes and which aren't tells you that you should not be depending on the non-escapes not being escapes.  What if we added one?  The doc says preserving the \s is a debugging aid, and that is all it should be used for, IMO.
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2011-05-29 16:36:53r.david.murraysetrecipients: + r.david.murray, terry.reedy, ezio.melotti, docs@python, Seth.Troisi
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