Unrecognized backslash escapes in string literals

[Ben Finney]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> That said, though, there's probably a lot of code out there that
> depends on backslashes being non-special, so it's quite probably
> something that can't be changed. But it'd be nice to be able to turn
> on a warning for it.

If you're motivated to see such warnings, an appropriate place to
implement them would be in PyLint or another established static code
analysis tool.

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