[Python-Dev] Emit SyntaxWarning on unrecognized backslash escapes? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Feb 23 20:47:51 CET 2015

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:29:09 -0800 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 02/23/2015 08:12 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Mon Feb 23 2015 at 10:55:23 AM Chris Angelico wrote: > > >> Is it at all possible for this to be introduced in the 2.x line [...] > > > > Starts with a minor version. > > Isn't there a -3 switch or something like that in 2.7.x to trigger > warnings/errors to help port to 3.x? Seems like this > kind of warning could go there. > If we agree it will be a syntax error in 3.x eventually.

That sounds frankly like a pedantic change.

Regards

Antoine.

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