Hi, I was constantly shaking my had above bug #1061802 featuring Syntaxwarnings like
SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.' 573s CLI_INPUT_RE = re.compile('[a-zA-Z0-9_:\.\-\+; /#%]') 573s /tmp/autopkgtest.G4v4eK/autopkgtest_tmp/hatop.py:215: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' 573s 'software_name': re.compile('^Name:\s*(?P<value>\S+)'), which is even in contrast with Regular expression operations documentation for Python3.12[1] where \s For Unicode (str) patterns: Matches Unicode whitespace characters (which includes [ \t\n\r\f\v], and also many other characters, for example the non-breaking spaces mandated by typography rules in many languages). Matches [ \t\n\r\f\v] if the ASCII flag is used. For 8-bit (bytes) patterns: Matches characters considered whitespace in the ASCII character set; this is equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v]. remains what I know \s is meaning in regular expressions. (I admit '\.' is unusual inside [] and I think just '.' is appropriate here.) I tried simple things like $ python3.12 Python 3.12.2 (main, Feb 7 2024, 20:47:03) [GCC 13.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> software_name = re.compile('^Name:\s*(?P<value>\S+)') <stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' >>> software_name = re.compile('^Name:[\s\t\n]*(?P<value>\S+)') <stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' which makes me scratching my head what else we should write for "any kind of space" now in Python3.12. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html -- http://fam-tille.de