[Python-ideas] Deprecate misleading escapes in strings

ot;\4" though, just to make my opinion clear). If going the whole hog, the 2015 'Make non-meaningful backslashes illegal in string literals' thread[3] could be revived as well, maybe even with "\f\v" deprecated, "\e" = "\33" introduced and such. Please l

[Python-ideas] Re: Deprecate misleading escapes in strings

range here. Are you sure the primary suggestion would break such code? I only meant deprecate "\xNN" in favor of "\u00NN" in the original idea, because it is too confusing against b"\xNN". No changes to literal unico