On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 3:45 AM, Lele Gaifax <l...@metapensiero.it> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> There's a shift as of 3.6 to make unrecognized alphabetic escapes into >> errors, or at least warnings. > > But we are talking about raw strings here, specifically r'\s+'. > > I agree that with plain strings it's a plus.
Right; the main change is for non-raw string literals, but it looks like the same change was made to regular expressions at the same time. IMO that's a good thing - the rule is simply "starting with 3.6, you should avoid \Z for any upper- or lower-case Z that doesn't have a documented meaning". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
