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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Feb 23 21:38:45 CET 2015

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:58:29 -0300 "Joao S. O. Bueno" <jsbueno at python.org.br> wrote:

On 23 February 2015 at 16:47, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > 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.

The real problem there, even motivating the request, seems to be new users in Windows platforms using "" as file path separator.

Thanks. That sounds like a good reason indeed.

Regards

Antoine.

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