Typically, backslashes are seen only as part of escape sequences. Therefore, the use of a backslash outside of a raw string or escape sequence looks suspiciously like a broken escape sequence.
Characters recognized as escape-able are: ``++abfnrtvox\'"++``
=== on 17 Apr 2020, 15:18:27 Nicolas Harraudeau wrote:
Deprecating this rule.
It raises many issues and most of them look like False Positives. The most common false positives are strings containing regular expressions. Example:
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import re
re.sub('\(', '[', '(test)') # False Positive
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This rule raises 380+ issues just on Pypy.
We could try to reduce the number of false positives by focusing only on strings passed to functions which do not use backslashes, such as ``++print++`` or ``++Exception++``, but the value seems to be low. The worst that could happen is that the backslash is displayed as part of the string or that a few characters are misinterpreted:
