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‎Doc/library/re.rst‎

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string, because the regular expression must be ``\\``, and each
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backslash must be expressed as ``\\`` inside a regular Python string
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literal. Also, please note that any invalid escape sequences in Python's
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usage of the backslash in string literals now generate a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`
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usage of the backslash in string literals now generate a :exc:`SyntaxWarning`
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and in the future this will become a :exc:`SyntaxError`. This behaviour
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will happen even if it is a valid escape sequence for a regular expression.
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‎Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst‎

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As in Standard C, up to three octal digits are accepted.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.11
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Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` produce a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
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In a future Python version they will be a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` and
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eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` produce a
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:exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.12
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Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` produce a
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:exc:`SyntaxWarning`. In a future Python version they will be eventually
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a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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Unlike in Standard C, exactly two hex digits are required.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.6
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Unrecognized escape sequences produce a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. In
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a future Python version they will be a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` and
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eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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Unrecognized escape sequences produce a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.12
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Unrecognized escape sequences produce a :exc:`SyntaxWarning`. In a future
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Python version they will be eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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Even in a raw literal, quotes can be escaped with a backslash, but the
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backslash remains in the result; for example, ``r"\""`` is a valid string
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chance to execute the GC periodically. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in
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* A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates
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a :exc:`SyntaxWarning`, instead of :exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
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For example, ``re.compile("\d+\.\d+")`` now emits a :exc:`SyntaxWarning`
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(``"\d"`` is an invalid escape sequence), use raw strings for regular
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expression: ``re.compile(r"\d+\.\d+")``.
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In a future Python version, :exc:`SyntaxError` will eventually be raised,
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instead of :exc:`SyntaxWarning`.
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(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`98401`.)
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* Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` (ex: ``"\477"``), deprecated
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in Python 3.11, now produce a :exc:`SyntaxWarning`, instead of
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:exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
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In a future Python version they will be eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`98401`.)
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New Modules
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‎Lib/test/test_codeop.py‎

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with warnings_helper.check_warnings(
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(".*literal", SyntaxWarning),
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(".*invalid", DeprecationWarning),
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('"is" with a literal', SyntaxWarning),
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("invalid escape sequence", SyntaxWarning),
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compile_command(r"'\e' is 0")
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self.assertEqual(len(w.warnings), 2)
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# Check DeprecationWarning treated as an SyntaxError
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# Check SyntaxWarning treated as an SyntaxError
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with warnings.catch_warnings(), self.assertRaises(SyntaxError):
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warnings.simplefilter('error', DeprecationWarning)
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compile_command(r"'\e'", symbol='exec')
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def test_incomplete_warning(self):
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self.assertEqual(w[0].category, SyntaxWarning)
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self.assertRegex(str(w[0].message), 'invalid escape sequence')
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self.assertEqual(w[0].filename, '<input>')
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‎Lib/test/test_fstring.py‎

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with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning): # invalid escape sequence
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self.assertEqual(value, '\\42')
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‎Lib/test/test_string_literals.py‎

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self.assertEqual(eval(r"'\%c'" % b), '\\' + chr(b))
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warnings.simplefilter('always', category=DeprecationWarning)
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warnings.simplefilter('always', category=SyntaxWarning)
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self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
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self.assertEqual(str(w[0].message), r"invalid escape sequence '\z'")
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self.assertEqual(eval(r"'\%o'" % i), chr(i))
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A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates a
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:exc:`SyntaxWarning`, instead of :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. For example,
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``re.compile("\d+\.\d+")`` now emits a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` (``"\d"`` is an
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invalid escape sequence), use raw strings for regular expression:
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Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` (ex: ``"\477"``), deprecated
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