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Issue #23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of `'\'`

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and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in
Python 3.6.
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Serhiy Storchaka 2015-03-24 22:58:14 +02:00
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@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ Empty matches are replaced only when they're not adjacent to a previous match.
If *replacement* is a string, any backslash escapes in it are processed. That
is, ``\n`` is converted to a single newline character, ``\r`` is converted to a
carriage return, and so forth. Unknown escapes such as ``\j`` are left alone.
carriage return, and so forth. Unknown escapes such as ``\&`` are left alone.
Backreferences, such as ``\6``, are replaced with the substring matched by the
corresponding group in the RE. This lets you incorporate portions of the
original text in the resulting replacement string.