On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 1:27:09 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> > wrote: > > There doesn't seem to be a change to string literals at all. It's only a > > change in the regex engine. > > > > Python 3.6.0b2 (default, Oct 10 2016, 21:30:05) > > [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> "\s" > > '\\s' > > Try with -Wall. To avoid breaking every novice Windows program ever > written (bar two or three), it's only a warning for now.
I see. I'm not sure how novice users will know to enable warnings that are off by default. Do people regularly run their code with -Wall? I never have, and I don't know how I would have seen these warnings. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list