From: Pablo Galindo Salgado Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 10:42:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: gh-81548: Clarify the deprecation of octal sequences affect byte strings (GH-92643) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0a1~1535 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d8500c739dc5ea926b2ec1ec02e400738225dac;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-81548: Clarify the deprecation of octal sequences affect byte strings (GH-92643) Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pablogsal --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index 6518eea4c7ba..97dd096731f0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -1116,8 +1116,8 @@ Deprecated that was added in Python 3.10. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :gh:`89519`.) -* Octal escapes with value larger than ``0o377`` now produce - a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. +* Octal escapes in string and bytes literals with value larger than ``0o377`` now + produce :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. In a future Python version they will be a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` and eventually a :exc:`SyntaxError`. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`81548`.)