[New-bugs-announce] [issue17850] unicode_escape encoding fails for '\\Upsilon'

[Edward K. Ream]

New submission from Edward K. Ream:

On both windows and Linux the following fails on Python 2.7:

   s = '\\Upsilon'
   unicode(s,"unicode_escape")

UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-7: end of string in escape sequence

BTW, the six.py package uses this call.  If this call doesn't work, six is broken.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 187852
nosy: Edward.K..Ream
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: unicode_escape encoding fails for '\\Upsilon'
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7

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