diff --git a/Lib/_osx_support.py b/Lib/_osx_support.py
--- a/Lib/_osx_support.py
+++ b/Lib/_osx_support.py
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ def _remove_universal_flags(_config_vars):
         # Do not alter a config var explicitly overridden by env var
         if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
             flags = _config_vars[cv]
-            flags = re.sub('-arch\s+\w+\s', ' ', flags, re.ASCII)
+            flags = re.sub(r'-arch\s+\w+\s', ' ', flags, re.ASCII)
             flags = re.sub('-isysroot [^ \t]*', ' ', flags)
             _save_modified_value(_config_vars, cv, flags)
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def _remove_unsupported_archs(_config_vars):
     if 'CC' in os.environ:
         return _config_vars
 
-    if re.search('-arch\s+ppc', _config_vars['CFLAGS']) is not None:
+    if re.search(r'-arch\s+ppc', _config_vars['CFLAGS']) is not None:
         # NOTE: Cannot use subprocess here because of bootstrap
         # issues when building Python itself
         status = os.system(
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def _remove_unsupported_archs(_config_vars):
             for cv in _UNIVERSAL_CONFIG_VARS:
                 if cv in _config_vars and cv not in os.environ:
                     flags = _config_vars[cv]
-                    flags = re.sub('-arch\s+ppc\w*\s', ' ', flags)
+                    flags = re.sub(r'-arch\s+ppc\w*\s', ' ', flags)
                     _save_modified_value(_config_vars, cv, flags)
 
     return _config_vars
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def _override_all_archs(_config_vars):
         for cv in _UNIVERSAL_CONFIG_VARS:
             if cv in _config_vars and '-arch' in _config_vars[cv]:
                 flags = _config_vars[cv]
-                flags = re.sub('-arch\s+\w+\s', ' ', flags)
+                flags = re.sub(r'-arch\s+\w+\s', ' ', flags)
                 flags = flags + ' ' + arch
                 _save_modified_value(_config_vars, cv, flags)
 
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ def get_platform_osx(_config_vars, osname, release, machine):
 
             machine = 'fat'
 
-            archs = re.findall('-arch\s+(\S+)', cflags)
+            archs = re.findall(r'-arch\s+(\S+)', cflags)
             archs = tuple(sorted(set(archs)))
 
             if len(archs) == 1:
diff --git a/Lib/csv.py b/Lib/csv.py
--- a/Lib/csv.py
+++ b/Lib/csv.py
@@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ class Sniffer:
         """
 
         matches = []
-        for restr in ('(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P=delim)', # ,".*?",
-                      '(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)',   #  ".*?",
-                      '(?P<delim>>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)',  # ,".*?"
-                      '(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)'):                            #  ".*?" (no delim, no space)
+        for restr in (r'(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P=delim)', # ,".*?",
+                      r'(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)',   #  ".*?",
+                      r'(?P<delim>>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)',  # ,".*?"
+                      r'(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)'):                            #  ".*?" (no delim, no space)
             regexp = re.compile(restr, re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)
             matches = regexp.findall(data)
             if matches:
diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@ def _mdiff(fromlines, tolines, context=None, linejunk=None,
     import re
 
     # regular expression for finding intraline change indices
-    change_re = re.compile('(\++|\-+|\^+)')
+    change_re = re.compile(r'(\++|\-+|\^+)')
 
     # create the difference iterator to generate the differences
     diff_lines_iterator = ndiff(fromlines,tolines,linejunk,charjunk)
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class Command:
         self._ensure_stringlike(option, "string", default)
 
     def ensure_string_list(self, option):
-        """Ensure that 'option' is a list of strings.  If 'option' is
+        r"""Ensure that 'option' is a list of strings.  If 'option' is
         currently a string, we split it either on /,\s*/ or /\s+/, so
         "foo bar baz", "foo,bar,baz", and "foo,   bar baz" all become
         ["foo", "bar", "baz"].
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ class MSVCCompiler(CCompiler) :
                 r"""VC\d{2}\.CRT("|').*?(/>|</assemblyIdentity>)""",
                 re.DOTALL)
             manifest_buf = re.sub(pattern, "", manifest_buf)
-            pattern = "<dependentAssembly>\s*</dependentAssembly>"
+            pattern = r"<dependentAssembly>\s*</dependentAssembly>"
             manifest_buf = re.sub(pattern, "", manifest_buf)
             # Now see if any other assemblies are referenced - if not, we
             # don't want a manifest embedded.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ def parse_config_h(fp, g=None):
 
 # Regexes needed for parsing Makefile (and similar syntaxes,
 # like old-style Setup files).
-_variable_rx = re.compile("([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\s*=\s*(.*)")
+_variable_rx = re.compile(r"([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\s*=\s*(.*)")
 _findvar1_rx = re.compile(r"\$\(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\)")
 _findvar2_rx = re.compile(r"\${([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)}")
 
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py b/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def split_provision(value):
     global _provision_rx
     if _provision_rx is None:
         _provision_rx = re.compile(
-            "([a-zA-Z_]\w*(?:\.[a-zA-Z_]\w*)*)(?:\s*\(\s*([^)\s]+)\s*\))?$",
+            r"([a-zA-Z_]\w*(?:\.[a-zA-Z_]\w*)*)(?:\s*\(\s*([^)\s]+)\s*\))?$",
             re.ASCII)
     value = value.strip()
     m = _provision_rx.match(value)
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py
index 5630220..0b78544 100644
--- a/Lib/doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/doctest.py
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ class DocTestParser:
 
     # This regular expression finds the indentation of every non-blank
     # line in a string.
-    _INDENT_RE = re.compile('^([ ]*)(?=\S)', re.MULTILINE)
+    _INDENT_RE = re.compile(r'^([ ]*)(?=\S)', re.MULTILINE)
 
     def _min_indent(self, s):
         "Return the minimum indentation of any non-blank line in `s`"
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ class DocTestFinder:
         if lineno is not None:
             if source_lines is None:
                 return lineno+1
-            pat = re.compile('(^|.*:)\s*\w*("|\')')
+            pat = re.compile(r'(^|.*:)\s*\w*("|\')')
             for lineno in range(lineno, len(source_lines)):
                 if pat.match(source_lines[lineno]):
                     return lineno
@@ -1608,11 +1608,11 @@ class OutputChecker:
         # blank line, unless the DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE flag is used.
         if not (optionflags & DONT_ACCEPT_BLANKLINE):
             # Replace <BLANKLINE> in want with a blank line.
-            want = re.sub('(?m)^%s\s*?$' % re.escape(BLANKLINE_MARKER),
+            want = re.sub(r'(?m)^%s\s*?$' % re.escape(BLANKLINE_MARKER),
                           '', want)
             # If a line in got contains only spaces, then remove the
             # spaces.
-            got = re.sub('(?m)^\s*?$', '', got)
+            got = re.sub(r'(?m)^\s*?$', '', got)
             if got == want:
                 return True
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/_header_value_parser.py b/Lib/email/_header_value_parser.py
--- a/Lib/email/_header_value_parser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_header_value_parser.py
@@ -652,8 +652,8 @@ class Comment(WhiteSpaceTokenList):
         if value.token_type == 'comment':
             return str(value)
         return str(value).replace('\\', '\\\\').replace(
-                                  '(', '\(').replace(
-                                  ')', '\)')
+                                  '(', r'\(').replace(
+                                  ')', r'\)')
 
     @property
     def content(self):
@@ -1356,15 +1356,15 @@ RouteComponentMarker = ValueTerminal('@', 'route-component-marker')
 
 _wsp_splitter = re.compile(r'([{}]+)'.format(''.join(WSP))).split
 _non_atom_end_matcher = re.compile(r"[^{}]+".format(
-    ''.join(ATOM_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']','\]'))).match
+    ''.join(ATOM_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']',r'\]'))).match
 _non_printable_finder = re.compile(r"[\x00-\x20\x7F]").findall
 _non_token_end_matcher = re.compile(r"[^{}]+".format(
-    ''.join(TOKEN_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']','\]'))).match
+    ''.join(TOKEN_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']',r'\]'))).match
 _non_attribute_end_matcher = re.compile(r"[^{}]+".format(
-    ''.join(ATTRIBUTE_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']','\]'))).match
+    ''.join(ATTRIBUTE_ENDS).replace('\\','\\\\').replace(']',r'\]'))).match
 _non_extended_attribute_end_matcher = re.compile(r"[^{}]+".format(
     ''.join(EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS).replace(
-                                    '\\','\\\\').replace(']','\]'))).match
+                                    '\\','\\\\').replace(']',r'\]'))).match
 
 def _validate_xtext(xtext):
     """If input token contains ASCII non-printables, register a defect."""
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ def get_unstructured(value):
     return unstructured
 
 def get_qp_ctext(value):
-    """ctext = <printable ascii except \ ( )>
+    r"""ctext = <printable ascii except \ ( )>
 
     This is not the RFC ctext, since we are handling nested comments in comment
     and unquoting quoted-pairs here.  We allow anything except the '()'
@@ -1878,7 +1878,7 @@ def get_obs_local_part(value):
     return obs_local_part, value
 
 def get_dtext(value):
-    """ dtext = <printable ascii except \ [ ]> / obs-dtext
+    r""" dtext = <printable ascii except \ [ ]> / obs-dtext
         obs-dtext = obs-NO-WS-CTL / quoted-pair
 
     We allow anything except the excluded characters, but if we find any
diff --git a/Lib/email/feedparser.py b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
--- a/Lib/email/feedparser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ from email import message
 from email._policybase import compat32
 from collections import deque
 
-NLCRE = re.compile('\r\n|\r|\n')
-NLCRE_bol = re.compile('(\r\n|\r|\n)')
-NLCRE_eol = re.compile('(\r\n|\r|\n)\Z')
-NLCRE_crack = re.compile('(\r\n|\r|\n)')
+NLCRE = re.compile(r'\r\n|\r|\n')
+NLCRE_bol = re.compile(r'(\r\n|\r|\n)')
+NLCRE_eol = re.compile(r'(\r\n|\r|\n)\Z')
+NLCRE_crack = re.compile(r'(\r\n|\r|\n)')
 # RFC 2822 $3.6.8 Optional fields.  ftext is %d33-57 / %d59-126, Any character
 # except controls, SP, and ":".
 headerRE = re.compile(r'^(From |[\041-\071\073-\176]*:|[\t ])')
diff --git a/Lib/fnmatch.py b/Lib/fnmatch.py
--- a/Lib/fnmatch.py
+++ b/Lib/fnmatch.py
@@ -106,4 +106,4 @@ def translate(pat):
                 res = '%s[%s]' % (res, stuff)
         else:
             res = res + re.escape(c)
-    return res + '\Z(?ms)'
+    return res + r'\Z(?ms)'
diff --git a/Lib/ftplib.py b/Lib/ftplib.py
index 2ab1d56..ee2a137 100644
--- a/Lib/ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/ftplib.py
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ def parse150(resp):
     if _150_re is None:
         import re
         _150_re = re.compile(
-            "150 .* \((\d+) bytes\)", re.IGNORECASE | re.ASCII)
+            r"150 .* \((\d+) bytes\)", re.IGNORECASE | re.ASCII)
     m = _150_re.match(resp)
     if not m:
         return None
diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
 #     explode, so don't do it.
 # see http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-open-state
 # and http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-name-state
-tagfind_tolerant = re.compile('([a-zA-Z][^\t\n\r\f />\x00]*)(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
+tagfind_tolerant = re.compile(r'([a-zA-Z][^\t\n\r\f />\x00]*)(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
 attrfind_tolerant = re.compile(
     r'((?<=[\'"\s/])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*)(\s*=+\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|(?![\'"])[^>\s]*))?(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ locatestarttagend_tolerant = re.compile(r"""
 endendtag = re.compile('>')
 # the HTML 5 spec, section 8.1.2.2, doesn't allow spaces between
 # </ and the tag name, so maybe this should be fixed
-endtagfind = re.compile('</\s*([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*)\s*>')
+endtagfind = re.compile(r'</\s*([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*)\s*>')
 
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""HTTP/1.1 client library
+r"""HTTP/1.1 client library
 
 <intro stuff goes here>
 <other stuff, too>
diff --git a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
--- a/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
+++ b/Lib/http/cookiejar.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def _str2time(day, mon, yr, hr, min, sec, tz):
 
 STRICT_DATE_RE = re.compile(
     r"^[SMTWF][a-z][a-z], (\d\d) ([JFMASOND][a-z][a-z]) "
-    "(\d\d\d\d) (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d) GMT$", re.ASCII)
+    r"(\d\d\d\d) (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d) GMT$", re.ASCII)
 WEEKDAY_RE = re.compile(
     r"^(?:Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat)[a-z]*,?\s*", re.I | re.ASCII)
 LOOSE_HTTP_DATE_RE = re.compile(
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ def http2time(text):
     return _str2time(day, mon, yr, hr, min, sec, tz)
 
 ISO_DATE_RE = re.compile(
-    """^
+    r"""^
     (\d{4})              # year
        [-\/]?
     (\d\d?)              # numerical month
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ def split_header_words(header_values):
                 pairs = []
             else:
                 # skip junk
-                non_junk, nr_junk_chars = re.subn("^[=\s;]*", "", text)
+                non_junk, nr_junk_chars = re.subn(r"^[=\s;]*", "", text)
                 assert nr_junk_chars > 0, (
                     "split_header_words bug: '%s', '%s', %s" %
                     (orig_text, text, pairs))
diff --git a/Lib/http/cookies.py b/Lib/http/cookies.py
--- a/Lib/http/cookies.py
+++ b/Lib/http/cookies.py
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ class Morsel(dict):
 #
 
 _LegalKeyChars  = r"\w\d!#%&'~_`><@,:/\$\*\+\-\.\^\|\)\(\?\}\{\="
-_LegalValueChars = _LegalKeyChars + '\[\]'
+_LegalValueChars = _LegalKeyChars + r'\[\]'
 _CookiePattern = re.compile(r"""
     (?x)                           # This is a verbose pattern
     \s*                            # Optional whitespace at start of cookie
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/calltips.py b/Lib/idlelib/calltips.py
--- a/Lib/idlelib/calltips.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/calltips.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def get_entity(expression):
 _MAX_COLS = 85
 _MAX_LINES = 5  # enough for bytes
 _INDENT = ' '*4  # for wrapped signatures
-_first_param = re.compile('(?<=\()\w*\,?\s*')
+_first_param = re.compile(r'(?<=\()\w*\,?\s*')
 _default_callable_argspec = "See source or doc"
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/paragraph.py b/Lib/idlelib/paragraph.py
--- a/Lib/idlelib/paragraph.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/paragraph.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def reformat_paragraph(data, limit):
     partial = indent1
     while i < n and not is_all_white(lines[i]):
         # XXX Should take double space after period (etc.) into account
-        words = re.split("(\s+)", lines[i])
+        words = re.split(r"(\s+)", lines[i])
         for j in range(0, len(words), 2):
             word = words[j]
             if not word:
diff --git a/Lib/imaplib.py b/Lib/imaplib.py
--- a/Lib/imaplib.py
+++ b/Lib/imaplib.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ _Untagged_status = br'\* (?P<data>\d+) (?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data2>.*))?'
 
 class IMAP4:
 
-    """IMAP4 client class.
+    r"""IMAP4 client class.
 
     Instantiate with: IMAP4([host[, port]])
 
@@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     ('select', ('/tmp/yyz 2',)),
     ('search', (None, 'SUBJECT', 'test')),
     ('fetch', ('1', '(FLAGS INTERNALDATE RFC822)')),
-    ('store', ('1', 'FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')),
+    ('store', ('1', 'FLAGS', r'(\Deleted)')),
     ('namespace', ()),
     ('expunge', ()),
     ('recent', ()),
diff --git a/Lib/msilib/__init__.py b/Lib/msilib/__init__.py
--- a/Lib/msilib/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/msilib/__init__.py
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class Directory:
     def make_short(self, file):
         oldfile = file
         file = file.replace('+', '_')
-        file = ''.join(c for c in file if not c in ' "/\[]:;=,')
+        file = ''.join(c for c in file if not c in r' "/\[]:;=,')
         parts = file.split(".")
         if len(parts) > 1:
             prefix = "".join(parts[:-1]).upper()
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -252,13 +252,13 @@ def _dist_try_harder(distname, version, id):
 
 _release_filename = re.compile(r'(\w+)[-_](release|version)', re.ASCII)
 _lsb_release_version = re.compile(r'(.+)'
-                                   ' release '
-                                   '([\d.]+)'
-                                   '[^(]*(?:\((.+)\))?', re.ASCII)
+                                  r' release '
+                                  r'([\d.]+)'
+                                  r'[^(]*(?:\((.+)\))?', re.ASCII)
 _release_version = re.compile(r'([^0-9]+)'
-                               '(?: release )?'
-                               '([\d.]+)'
-                               '[^(]*(?:\((.+)\))?', re.ASCII)
+                              r'(?: release )?'
+                              r'([\d.]+)'
+                              r'[^(]*(?:\((.+)\))?', re.ASCII)
 
 # See also http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11251.html
 # and http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/release-files.html
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ def _norm_version(version, build=''):
     return version
 
 _ver_output = re.compile(r'(?:([\w ]+) ([\w.]+) '
-                         '.*'
-                         '\[.* ([\d.]+)\])')
+                         r'.*'
+                         r'\[.* ([\d.]+)\])')
 
 # Examples of VER command output:
 #
@@ -1154,22 +1154,22 @@ _sys_version_parser = re.compile(
 
 _ironpython_sys_version_parser = re.compile(
     r'IronPython\s*'
-    '([\d\.]+)'
-    '(?: \(([\d\.]+)\))?'
-    ' on (.NET [\d\.]+)', re.ASCII)
+    r'([\d\.]+)'
+    r'(?: \(([\d\.]+)\))?'
+    r' on (.NET [\d\.]+)', re.ASCII)
 
 # IronPython covering 2.6 and 2.7
 _ironpython26_sys_version_parser = re.compile(
     r'([\d.]+)\s*'
-    '\(IronPython\s*'
-    '[\d.]+\s*'
-    '\(([\d.]+)\) on ([\w.]+ [\d.]+(?: \(\d+-bit\))?)\)'
+    r'\(IronPython\s*'
+    r'[\d.]+\s*'
+    r'\(([\d.]+)\) on ([\w.]+ [\d.]+(?: \(\d+-bit\))?)\)'
 )
 
 _pypy_sys_version_parser = re.compile(
     r'([\w.+]+)\s*'
-    '\(#?([^,]+),\s*([\w ]+),\s*([\w :]+)\)\s*'
-    '\[PyPy [^\]]+\]?')
+    r'\(#?([^,]+),\s*([\w ]+),\s*([\w :]+)\)\s*'
+    r'\[PyPy [^\]]+\]?')
 
 _sys_version_cache = {}
 
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ def platform(aliased=0, terse=0):
             # see issue #1322 for more information
             warnings.filterwarnings(
                 'ignore',
-                'dist\(\) and linux_distribution\(\) '
+                r'dist\(\) and linux_distribution\(\) '
                 'functions are deprecated .*',
                 PendingDeprecationWarning,
             )
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ascii_letters = ascii_lowercase + ascii_uppercase
 digits = '0123456789'
 hexdigits = digits + 'abcdef' + 'ABCDEF'
 octdigits = '01234567'
-punctuation = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
+punctuation = r"""!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
 printable = digits + ascii_letters + punctuation + whitespace
 
 # Functions which aren't available as string methods.
diff --git a/Lib/sysconfig.py b/Lib/sysconfig.py
--- a/Lib/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/sysconfig.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def _parse_makefile(filename, vars=None):
     # Regexes needed for parsing Makefile (and similar syntaxes,
     # like old-style Setup files).
     import re
-    _variable_rx = re.compile("([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\s*=\s*(.*)")
+    _variable_rx = re.compile(r"([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\s*=\s*(.*)")
     _findvar1_rx = re.compile(r"\$\(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\)")
     _findvar2_rx = re.compile(r"\${([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)}")
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ def can_xattr():
                     os.setxattr(fp.fileno(), b"user.test", b"")
                     # Kernels < 2.6.39 don't respect setxattr flags.
                     kernel_version = platform.release()
-                    m = re.match("2.6.(\d{1,2})", kernel_version)
+                    m = re.match(r"2.6.(\d{1,2})", kernel_version)
                     can = m is None or int(m.group(1)) >= 39
                 except OSError:
                     can = False
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
             ('+', b'+-'),
             ('+-', b'+--'),
             ('+?', b'+-?'),
-            ('\?', b'+AFw?'),
+            (r'\?', b'+AFw?'),
             ('+?', b'+-?'),
             (r'\\?', b'+AFwAXA?'),
             (r'\\\?', b'+AFwAXABc?'),
@@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
         # non-ascii format, ascii argument: ensure that PyUnicode_FromFormatV()
         # raises an error
         self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError,
-            '^PyUnicode_FromFormatV\(\) expects an ASCII-encoded format '
+            r'^PyUnicode_FromFormatV\(\) expects an ASCII-encoded format '
             'string, got a non-ASCII byte: 0xe9$',
             PyUnicode_FromFormat, b'unicode\xe9=%s', 'ascii')
 
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/runner.py b/Lib/unittest/runner.py
--- a/Lib/unittest/runner.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/runner.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class TextTestRunner(object):
                 if self.warnings in ['default', 'always']:
                     warnings.filterwarnings('module',
                             category=DeprecationWarning,
-                            message='Please use assert\w+ instead.')
+                            message=r'Please use assert\w+ instead.')
             startTime = time.time()
             startTestRun = getattr(result, 'startTestRun', None)
             if startTestRun is not None:
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementPath.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementPath.py
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementPath.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementPath.py
@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@
 import re
 
 xpath_tokenizer_re = re.compile(
-    "("
-    "'[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"|"
-    "::|"
-    "//?|"
-    "\.\.|"
-    "\(\)|"
-    "[/.*:\[\]\(\)@=])|"
-    "((?:\{[^}]+\})?[^/\[\]\(\)@=\s]+)|"
-    "\s+"
+    r"("
+    r"'[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"|"
+    r"::|"
+    r"//?|"
+    r"\.\.|"
+    r"\(\)|"
+    r"[/.*:\[\]\(\)@=])|"
+    r"((?:\{[^}]+\})?[^/\[\]\(\)@=\s]+)|"
+    r"\s+"
     )
 
 def xpath_tokenizer(pattern, namespaces=None):
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def prepare_predicate(next, token):
                 if elem.get(key) == value:
                     yield elem
         return select
-    if signature == "-" and not re.match("\-?\d+$", predicate[0]):
+    if signature == "-" and not re.match(r"\-?\d+$", predicate[0]):
         # [tag]
         tag = predicate[0]
         def select(context, result):
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def prepare_predicate(next, token):
                 if elem.find(tag) is not None:
                     yield elem
         return select
-    if signature == "-='" and not re.match("\-?\d+$", predicate[0]):
+    if signature == "-='" and not re.match(r"\-?\d+$", predicate[0]):
         # [tag='value']
         tag = predicate[0]
         value = predicate[-1]
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ def register_namespace(prefix, uri):
     ValueError is raised if prefix is reserved or is invalid.
 
     """
-    if re.match("ns\d+$", prefix):
+    if re.match(r"ns\d+$", prefix):
         raise ValueError("Prefix format reserved for internal use")
     for k, v in list(_namespace_map.items()):
         if k == uri or v == prefix: