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authorEric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2016-09-03 13:18:34 (GMT)
committerEric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2016-09-03 13:18:34 (GMT)
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Closes issue 27921: Disallow backslashes anywhere in f-strings. This is a temporary restriction. In 3.6 beta 2, the plan is to again allow backslashes in the string parts of f-strings, but disallow them in the expression parts.
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #27921: Disallow backslashes in f-strings. This is a temporary
+ restriction: in beta 2, backslashes will only be disallowed inside
+ the braces (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change
+ from the 3.6 alpha releases.
+
- Issue #27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts
to allocate large amounts of memory.