#27364: fix "incorrect" uses of escape character in the stdlib.

And most of the tools.

Patch by Emanual Barry, reviewed by me, Serhiy Storchaka, and
Martin Panter.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 5630220..0b78544 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ class DocTestParser:
 
     # This regular expression finds the indentation of every non-blank
     # line in a string.
-    _INDENT_RE = re.compile('^([ ]*)(?=\S)', re.MULTILINE)
+    _INDENT_RE = re.compile(r'^([ ]*)(?=\S)', re.MULTILINE)
 
     def _min_indent(self, s):
         "Return the minimum indentation of any non-blank line in `s`"
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ class DocTestFinder:
         if lineno is not None:
             if source_lines is None:
                 return lineno+1
-            pat = re.compile('(^|.*:)\s*\w*("|\')')
+            pat = re.compile(r'(^|.*:)\s*\w*("|\')')
             for lineno in range(lineno, len(source_lines)):
                 if pat.match(source_lines[lineno]):
                     return lineno
@@ -1608,11 +1608,11 @@ class OutputChecker:
         # blank line, unless the DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE flag is used.
         if not (optionflags & DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE):
             # Replace <BLANKLINE> in want with a blank line.
-            want = re.sub('(?m)^%s\s*?$' % re.escape(BLANKLINE_MARKER),
+            want = re.sub(r'(?m)^%s\s*?$' % re.escape(BLANKLINE_MARKER),
                           '', want)
             # If a line in got contains only spaces, then remove the
             # spaces.
-            got = re.sub('(?m)^\s*?$', '', got)
+            got = re.sub(r'(?m)^\s*?$', '', got)
             if got == want:
                 return True