bpo-32603: Deprecation warning on strings used in re module#5255
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| is complicated and hard to understand, so it's highly recommended that you use | ||
| raw strings for all but the simplest expressions. | ||
| sequence isn't recognized by Python's parser, it will generate a | ||
| :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and in the future this will become a :exc:`Syntaxerror`. |
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Syntaxerror -> SyntaxError
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IMHO, I actually thought the warning about the DeprecationWarning and SyntaxError should come in one of the introduction paragraphs since the raw strings are discussed there. In the paragraph that starts with, |
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Thank you very much @csabella. I have added some lines as you suggested in the introductory paragraphs. |
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| backslash must be expressed as ``\\`` inside a regular Python string | ||
| literal. | ||
| literal. Also, please note that any invalid escape sequences in Python's | ||
| usage of the backslash in string literals now generate a DeprecationWarning |
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Could you use a link to the DeprecationWarning exception like that
:exc:`DeprecationWarning`
same for the SyntaxError exception
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https://bugs.python.org/issue32603