guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (07/26/84)
>The best way to put a backslash into text is with '\e'. At first, >I wondered why they bothered putting this escape in. Now I realize >that it's to keep you from going crazy trying to figure out how >many backslashs you need in any one place. Still, in many cases you need \\e ...