Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:48:24 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote:

> In any case, my argument has consistently been that Python should have
> treated undefined escape sequences consistently as fatal errors, 

A reasonable position to take. I disagree with it, but it is certainly 
reasonable.


> not as warnings.

I don't know what language you're talking about here, because non-special 
escape sequences in Python aren't either errors or warnings:

>>> print "ab\cd"
ab\cd

No warning is made, because it's not considered an error that requires a 
warning. This matches the behaviour of other languages, including C and 
bash.



-- 
Steven