On 14.10.16 19:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
I wasn't specifically aware that the re module was doing the same thing, but it'll be from the same purpose and goal. The idea is that, for instance, Windows path names in non-raw string literals will no longer behave differently based on whether the path is "my_user" or "the_other_user". Definite improvement.
The re module emitted deprecation warnings in 3.5. In 3.6 warnings become errors. The idea is that this allows to add new special sequences (like \p{...} or \R) in future.
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