Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> writes: > On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 12:50:44 PM UTC-4, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > There's a shift as of 3.6 to make unrecognized alphabetic escapes into >> > errors, or at least warnings. >> >> But we are talking about raw strings here, specifically r'\s+'. >> >> I agree that with plain strings it's a plus. > > The raw string means the regex engine gets three characters: backslash, > s, plus. It then has to decide what backslash-s means. In 3.6, this is > an error. You'll need to escape the backslash for the regex engine: > > >>> re.sub(r'\s+', r'\\s+', 'foo bar') > 'foo\\s+bar'
Thanks for the clarification. I tested the above syntax and works flawlessly on 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6b2, and I will therefore suggest it on https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/issues/595. bye, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. l...@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
