[New-bugs-announce] [issue34920] PYTHONWARNINGS entries are escaped

[Nikolaus Rath]

New submission from Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org>:

According to https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#describing-warning-filters:

"The meaning of each of these fields [of PYTHONWARNINGS] is as described in <The Warnings Filter>."

The description of the "The Warnings filter" says

"module is a string containing a regular expression that the module name must match."

However, when parsing PYTHONWARNINGS, the warnings module explicitly escapes the module field.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 327272
nosy: nikratio
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PYTHONWARNINGS entries are escaped
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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