New submission from Ned Deily <n...@acm.org>:
In behavior carried over from Python 2 string literals, Python 3 byte string
literals raise a less helpful ValueError exception when an invalid hex escape
code is given:
>>> x = b'\x0'
ValueError: invalid \x escape
A string literal raises a SyntaxError and a full traceback including line
number:
>>> x = '\x0'
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode
bytes in position 0-2: end of string in escape sequence
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 144059
nosy: ned.deily
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: byte string literals with invalid hex escape codes raise ValueError
instead of SyntaxError
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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