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@@ -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
--------------------------