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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Feb 24 19:00:07 CET 2015

On 02/24/2015 09:44 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

TBH I think this will be a tough sell. I worry that an meme will emerge to make all string literals use raw mode, or worse, to deprecate non-raw string literals. I'm not sure how we'll get out of the whole conundrum, and I'm not in a hurry to see this in 3.5.

So should we move forward with just the better error messages? It's a good first step, and even if it ends up being the only step it would be a huge improvement.

-- Ethan

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