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

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 10:21:41 CET 2015


On 24.02.15 11:09, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Oh, I like that idea, especially the variant that includes a search friendly phrase like "embedded escapes" in the error message. And unlike changing the handling of string literals generally, the impact would be isolated to a few exception repr implementations.

It can require changing code in tens of places like PyErr_Format(FooError, "File %R is not valid FOO", filename) or raise FooError("File %r is not valid FOO" % (filename,)).

And of course 'c:\test.txt' is valid name on Unix.



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