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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Feb 23 22:39:25 CET 2015

Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

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.

Even with the syntax error, there are filenames that will mysteriously fail, e.g. "C:\ninjamoves.txt".

-- Greg

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