On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 01:44, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>
> This discussion looks like there's no end in sight. Maybe the Steering
> Council should take a vote?
I find the "Our deprecation warnings were even less visible than
normal" argument for extending the deprecation period compelling.
I also think the UX of the warning itself could be reviewed to provide
a more explicit nudge towards using raw strings when folks want to
allow arbitrary embedded backslashes. Consider:
SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \,
vs something like:
SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \, (Note: adding the raw
string literal prefix, r, will accept all non-trailing backslashes)
After all, the habit we're trying to encourage is "If I want to
include backslashes without escaping them all, I should use a raw
string", not "I should memorize the entire set of valid escape
sequences" or even "I should always escape backslashes".
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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