From: David G. <go...@py...> - 2002-12-15 05:24:20
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David Abrahams wrote: > Thanks for your reply. When I try your workaround I still get a > grammatically incorrect apostrophe in the word "lists". Would it > break anything if you added the backslash to the list of "certain > punctuation characters"? That way, I could write ``list``\s and get > exactly the effect I want. Interesting idea. May work. I'll have to think it through. There may be adverse side-effects due to the way backslash-escapes are handled internally (they're converted to \x00 null bytes, which I've always thought was a bit of a kludge, but it's worked thus far). -- David Goodger go...@py... |