On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:15:17PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> My previous patch to warn about unknown backslash escapes was buggy, and
> warns on "\0" or "\177".  This fixes it.
> 
> As I say in a comment, I do wonder if octal escapes are so rare today that
> they often indicate incorrect escaping.  In my survey of some Google code,
> I do see things like "\1" used much more often as a regexp replacement than
> as an octal escape.  How would you feel about an (of course suppressable)
> warning for non-zero octal characters?

\033 is useful for colourful ANSI sequences, if one's too lazy to go
through curses.tigetstr("af"/"ab").

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58)
>>> "abc".count("", 100)
-96

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