On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> - Keep the SyntaxWarning silent by default for 3.8. That gives us
> another year or more to gently pressure third-party libraries to fix
> their code, and to find ways to encourage developers to run with
> warnings enabled.

How do you propose to apply this pressure?

How about: whenever a third-party library uses a potentially-wrong
escape sequence, it creates a message on the console. Then when
someone sees that message, they can post a bug report against the
package.

In other words, a non-silent warning.

ChrisA
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