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Author mrabarnett
Recipients Rosuav, barry, docs@python, ezio.melotti, lelit, mrabarnett, nedbat, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2016-11-22.19:42:40
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@Barry: repl already supports some escapes, e.g. \g<name> for named groups, although not \xXX et al, so deprecating unknown escapes like in the pattern makes sense to me.

BTW, the regex module already supports \xXX, \N{XXX}, etc.
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