bpo-40554: Add escape to the Glossary #22342
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| @@ -528,6 +528,24 @@ Glossary | |||
| An Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is a basic editor | |||
| and interpreter environment which ships with the standard distribution of | |||
| Python. | |||
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| Escape | |||
| In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character that | |||
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This is the first two sentences of the Wikipedia page on "Escape character". While I, too, will often look at Wikipedia for a compact definition, usually their text needs rewriting. Here the phrase "a particular case of metacharacters" doesn't clarify anything, and since it lacks WP's link to a different entry, it's not helpful. The table of specific escape characters should be removed, since it's not necessarily correct for Python and makes the entry too long.
The discussion in the issue is leaning against adding "escape" to the glossary. Add that to the missing CLA, and I think we can just decline this change.
Add escape to the glossary.
https://bugs.python.org/issue40554