[issue25567] shlex.quote doesn't work on bytestrings

[Aldwin Pollefeyt]

Aldwin Pollefeyt <aldwinaldwin at gmail.com> added the comment:

Python 3.9.0a0
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
>>> import re
>>> find_unsafe_bytes = re.compile(b'[^\w@%+=:,./-]').search
<stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \w

when removing \w, all the tests pass

(my regex knowledge is close to None.)

"\w stands for "word character". It always matches the ASCII characters [A-Za-z0-9_]"

replace \w with A-Za-z0-9_ ?? (all the tests pass)

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nosy: +aldwinaldwin

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