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Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes in re #67810

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serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Mar 9, 2015 · 3 comments
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Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes in re #67810

serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Mar 9, 2015 · 3 comments
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BPO 23622
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title = 'Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes in re'
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    Regular expressions use the backslash character for two functions:

    1. to indicate special forms;
    2. to allow special characters to be used without invoking their special meaning.

    If backslash + character is not recognized as special form (1), it interpreted in meaning (2).

    Usually new special forms have form backslash + ASCII letter, because unlike to other characters single ASCII letters do not have special meaning in any regular expression engine or programming language. This using the backslash with inner ASCII letter dangerous. Currently it means just this letter literally, but in future it can mean special form. For example \u and \U forms were added in 3.3 and this could break regular expression patters that use \u and \U before.

    To avoid possible breaking it makes sense to reject unrecognized backslash + ASCII letter sequences. Proposed patch adds deprecation warnings when unknown escape of ASCII letter is used. The idea was proposed by Matthew Barnett [1].

    [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/151657

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    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir topic-regex type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Mar 9, 2015
    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka changed the title Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes Deprecate unrecognized backslash+letter escapes in re Mar 13, 2015
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    python-dev mannequin commented Mar 24, 2015

    New changeset 014031a4d398 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
    Issue bpo-23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of '\'
    https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/014031a4d398

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    python-dev mannequin commented Mar 24, 2015

    New changeset 7384db2fce8a by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
    Fixed using deprecated escaping in regular expression in _strptime.py (bpo-23622).
    https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7384db2fce8a

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