Hello Emanual, I think I have fixed your problem with -Werror, by handling the exception returned by PyErr_WarnFormat() (see my patch). Thanks for separating the actual change from the escape violation fixes; it made it easier to spot the real problem :)

Also, I like the general idea of the change. It would be good to update the documentation as well (e.g. What’s New, and <https://docs.python.org/3.6/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals>).

It would be good to do the same for byte string literals, at least to keep things consistent. What did you try so far? Do you have a partial patch for it?