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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index 7f8ba47..11b56cc 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst @@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ Strings and Bytes explicitly convert between them, using the :meth:`str.encode` (str -> bytes) or :meth:`bytes.decode` (bytes -> str) methods. +* All backslashes in raw strings are interpreted literally. This means that + Unicode escapes are not treated specially. + .. XXX add bytearray * PEP 3112: Bytes literals, e.g. ``b"abc"``, create :class:`bytes` instances. @@ -183,6 +186,8 @@ Strings and Bytes * The :mod:`StringIO` and :mod:`cStringIO` modules are gone. Instead, import :class:`io.StringIO` or :class:`io.BytesIO`. +* ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'`` escapes in raw strings are not treated specially. + PEP 3101: A New Approach to String Formatting ============================================= |