Re: [code-quality] Change in unicode escape sequences

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Émanuel Barry vgr255@live.ca wrote:

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From: Florian Bruhin Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [code-quality] Change in unicode escape sequences

pylint already does:

$ cat x.py
print("hello \world")

$ pylint x.py
[...]
W:  1, 0: Anomalous backslash in string: '\w'. String constant might
be missing an r prefix. (anomalous-backslash-in-string)
[...]

Florian

Great, that's one less thing to worry about :) What about the other ones? -Emanuel

I think pydocstyle does this for docstrings by default. PyFlakes might also be a good candidate but they try to have as few checks that could cause false positives as possible.