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Author sjmachin
Recipients docs@python, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, mrabarnett, sjmachin
Date 2012-01-29.21:50:46
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Whoops: "normal Python rules for backslash escapes" should have had a note "but revert to the C behaviour of stripping the \ from unrecognised escapes" which is what re appears to do in its own \ handling.
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