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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-12-06 17:25:19 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-12-06 17:25:19 (GMT)
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Merge documentation for issue #27030 from 3.6.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/re.rst7
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst5
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst5
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 218bbf8..adf3ddd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -758,7 +758,12 @@ form.
Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
- Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter now are errors.
+ Unknown escapes in *pattern* consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter
+ now are errors.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ Unknown escapes in *repl* consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter
+ now are errors.
.. function:: subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 040a533..3c2ab12 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -2021,8 +2021,9 @@ API and Feature Removals
------------------------
* Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in
- regular expressions will now cause an error. The :const:`re.LOCALE`
- flag can now only be used with binary patterns.
+ regular expressions will now cause an error. In replacement templates for
+ :func:`re.sub` they are still allowed, but deprecated.
+ The :const:`re.LOCALE` flag can now only be used with binary patterns.
* ``inspect.getmoduleinfo()`` was removed (was deprecated since CPython 3.3).
:func:`inspect.getmodulename` should be used for obtaining the module
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index d306d40..14285d9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Deprecated
Removed
=======
+API and Feature Removals
+------------------------
+
+* Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in replacement
+ templates for :func:`re.sub` will now cause an error.
Porting to Python 3.7
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 15719f2..e52fbdb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #27030: Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in
+ re.sub() replacement templates regular expressions now are errors.
+
- Issue #28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings():
call warnings.showwarning() if it was overriden inside the context manager.