From 76b81be41346774a2e12607aa4d55f34b170b8e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 09:44:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-81548: Clarify the deprecation of octal sequences affect byte strings (GH-92643) Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pablogsal (cherry picked from commit 0d8500c739dc5ea926b2ec1ec02e400738225dac) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo Salgado --- Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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`.) -- 2.47.2