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

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/24/2015 09:44 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> TBH I think this will be a tough sell. I worry that an meme will emerge to make all
> string literals use raw mode, or worse, to deprecate non-raw string literals. I'm
> not sure how we'll get out of the whole conundrum, and I'm not in a hurry to see
> this in 3.5.

So should we move forward with just the better error messages?  It's a good first step, and even if it ends up being the
only step it would be a huge improvement.

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~Ethan~

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