Re: LPEG: character escapes in 're' module

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@...>]

Andrew Zhilin <andrew_zhilin@yahoo.com> writes:
> 2. Only 2 chars change meaning: '\\' and '\]' inside character
> class. ']' already has documented method to be expressed without
> escaping (can be included in the set as the first character, after the
> optional ^).  As for '\\' - we can predefine %bslash, or just clarify
> in documentation that someone should use '\\\\' if pattern is
> delimited by single or double quotes.

Wouldn't it be an awful lot less confusing to just use some other
character?

-Miles

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