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More believable for a Linux OS (lemmy.world)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

OSError: File or directory not found "C:WindowsSystem32"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Nope. From the spec:

    "Unlike Standard C, all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the string unchanged, i.e., the backslash is left in the result."

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This behavior is useful when debugging: if an escape sequence is mistyped, the resulting output is more easily recognized as broken.

    Wow, this sentence really threw me for a moment. I had no idea how other programming languages behave.

    ...which makes sense, because they don't. The compiler just tells you to fuck off and that's the end of that story. I guess, they can't do that in Python...

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