Re: backslash in triple quoted string

Also, it appears that the change linked above is a lie:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-longstringitem

According to the grammar, any character can follow backslash in a
valid Python program. The warning / error raised by this code should
not be a syntax error / warning because the syntax is correct.

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM Left Right <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think it could be this:
>
> A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now
> generates a SyntaxWarning, instead of DeprecationWarning. For example,
> re.compile("\d+\.\d+") now emits a SyntaxWarning ("\d" is an invalid
> escape sequence, use raw strings for regular expression:
> re.compile(r"\d+\.\d+")). In a future Python version, SyntaxError will
> eventually be raised, instead of SyntaxWarning. (Contributed by Victor
> Stinner in gh-98401.)
>
> Found in:
> https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#other-language-changes
>
> It's not supposed to crash your program though. If the program crashes
> because of it, it's a bug in Python.
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM Bob van der Poel via Python-list
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Did something change in python buggering up my use of a "\ " sequence in a
> > triple quoted string?
> >
> > I have yet to go through my archive on the program, but I tried to run it
> > today and it crashed quite spectacularly when it hit a """ .... """ line
> > being used as a comment at the top of a function. I changed the "\" to a
> > "/" and all is well now.
> >
> >
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