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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 23 22:39:27 CET 2015

On 23/02/2015 21:27, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

On 23.02.15 21:58, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

That happens all the time, and is this use case that should possibly be addressed here - maybe something as simple as adding a couple of paragraphs to different places in the documentation could mitigate the issue. (in contrast to make a tons of otherwise valid code to become deprecated in a couple releases). The problem is that the user don't know that he should read the documentation. It just find that his script works with "C:\sample.txt", but doesn't work with "D:\test.txt". He has no ideas what happen.

Isn't this why users have help desks?

-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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