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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-12-06 19:15:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-12-06 19:15:29 +0200 |
| commit | 9bd3adc7445d23ed7a85245d090278a452699aec (patch) | |
| tree | 64f367ede8293f9e33bd066e4b0c8251b17939ea /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | fbe26ff9b0bac8511d5b31c3511fbd1ea24d9316 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-9bd3adc7445d23ed7a85245d090278a452699aec.tar.gz | |
Issue #27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed
again. But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 040a533da7..3c2ab12976 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -2021,8 +2021,9 @@ API and Feature Removals ------------------------ * Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in - regular expressions will now cause an error. The :const:`re.LOCALE` - flag can now only be used with binary patterns. + regular expressions will now cause an error. In replacement templates for + :func:`re.sub` they are still allowed, but deprecated. + The :const:`re.LOCALE` flag can now only be used with binary patterns. * ``inspect.getmoduleinfo()`` was removed (was deprecated since CPython 3.3). :func:`inspect.getmodulename` should be used for obtaining the module |