[Python-Dev] Emit SyntaxWarning on unrecognized backslash escapes?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/02/2015 23:32, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 24.02.15 00:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> - SyntaxError in Python 3.7
>
> I think that SyntaxError could wait to 4.0.
>
>> Another suggestion: we may want to turn this particular deprecation
>> warning on by default in the interactive interpreter, and recommend
>> that other interactive interpreter developers (such as the IPython
>> folks) consider doing the same.
>
> Why not turn all deprecation warning on by default in the interactive
> interpreter?
>

In any given release how many of these would you see?  I wouldn't mind 
seeing a few lines whenever I ran the II, but if the number started 
getting into tens or hundreds, at best I'd find it extremely irritating.

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Mark Lawrence