Getting rid of '\E'

Guido van Rossum (guido@cwi.nl)
Thu, 16 Jan 92 14:33:01 +0100

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Currently, Python defines '\E' in string literals as the ASCII ESC
character. This is the only \-escape that is different from ANSI C.
I have never used it, and that it's actually easy enough to write '\033'.
Would anybody care if I took it out of the language?

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
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