On 08 janvier 13:13, Martin Pool wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Martin,
> Following on from my patch to fix an incorrect warning for \0, this one
> adds a new warning for octal character escapes in a string. A typical
> problematic example is:
>
> re.sub('\w+,\w+', '\1 \2', a)
>
> and a bit more motivation is that
> pep-3127<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/> deprecates
> the 0-prefixed syntax for integers (not for character escapes.)
>
> Of course this is more of a warning about something that might be
> unintentional, and people might reasonably choose to use them, for
> something like '\033' (escape). But, it's easy to turn it off or rephrase
> that as '\x1b'.
I tend to agree, though may be it deserves a separated warning so it
may be disabled globally. May be some other people on the list have an opinion
on this ?
Cheers
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