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

[Greg Ewing]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> Trying to make the 
> error messages more similar, or more identifying, may be a good idea (as 
> long as they aren't misleading when people *meant* to use escape 
> sequences in a string)

It seems that Windows won't let you use control
characters in filenames, so there is room for a
more pointed error message from functions that
take pathnames on Windows.

-- 
Greg