[code-quality] Change in unicode escape sequences

[Ian Cordasco]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Émanuel Barry <vgr255 at live.ca> wrote:
>> From: Florian Bruhin
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 6:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: [code-quality] Change in unicode escape sequences
>>
>> pylint already does:
>>
>>     $ cat x.py
>>     print("hello \world")
>>
>>     $ pylint x.py
>>     [...]
>>     W:  1, 0: Anomalous backslash in string: '\w'. String constant might
>>     be missing an r prefix. (anomalous-backslash-in-string)
>>     [...]
>>
>> Florian
>
> Great, that's one less thing to worry about :) What about the other ones?
> -Emanuel

I think pydocstyle does this for docstrings by default. PyFlakes might
also be a good candidate but they try to have as few checks that could
cause false positives as possible.