Add information about DeprecationWarning for invalid escaped characters in the re module (GH-5255)
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a literal backslash, one might have to write ``'\\\\'`` as the pattern
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string, because the regular expression must be ``\\``, and each
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backslash must be expressed as ``\\`` inside a regular Python string
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literal.
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literal. Also, please note that any invalid escape sequences in Python's
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usage of the backslash in string literals now generate a :exc:`DeprecationWarning`
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and in the future this will become a :exc:`SyntaxError`. This behaviour
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will happen even if it is a valid escape sequence for a regular expression.
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The solution is to use Python's raw string notation for regular expression
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patterns; backslashes are not handled in any special way in a string literal
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