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@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ Other Language Changes
and :keyword:`return` statements.
(Contributed by David Cuthbert and Jordan Chapman in :issue:`32117`.)
+* A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence generates
+ a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.6. In Python 3.8 it generates
+ a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` instead.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`32912`.)
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New Modules
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