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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2016-09-08 19:34:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2016-09-08 19:34:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 110b6fecbbb86143a4acb568f50eab2c870e7d34 (patch) | |
| tree | ccc11fe14604c7c08bb750b392f67559a3cfd962 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 186122ead26f3ae4c2bc9f6715d2a29d339fdc5a (diff) | |
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#27364: Deprecate invalid escape strings in str/byutes.
Patch by Emanuel Barry, reviewed by Serhiy Storchaka and Martin Panter.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index e53d48e..a76ac9d 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ Deprecated features parameter will be dropped in a future Python release and likely earlier through third party tools. See :issue:`27919` for details. +* A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates + a DeprecationWarning. Although this will eventually become a SyntaxError, + that will not be for several Python releases. (Contributed by Emanuel Barry + in :issue:`27364`.) + Deprecated Python behavior -------------------------- |