Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: I disagree that the documentation is at fault. This is known to break existing code, e.g. http://bugs.python.org/msg281496
I think it's not correct to change the documentation but leave the error-raising behavior for 3.6 because the deprecation was never documented in 3.5 so this will look like a gratuitous regression. issue27030 for reference. I also question whether it makes sense for such escapes to be illegal in the repl argument of re.sub(). I could understand for this limitation in the pattern argument, but that's not what's causing the error. ---------- nosy: +barry _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28450> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
