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| author |   Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-02-02 22:06:35 +0100 |
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[3.11] gh-103360: Add link in stdtypes.rst to escape sequences in lexical_analysis.rst (GH-103638) (#114908)
(cherry picked from commit d29f57f6036353b4e705a42637177442bf7e07e5)
Co-authored-by: Justin Williams <97240811+juswil@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 732c3145c87..db9815733fc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ between them will be implicitly converted to a single string literal. That is, ``("spam " "eggs") == "spam eggs"``. See :ref:`strings` for more about the various forms of string literal, -including supported escape sequences, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that +including supported :ref:`escape sequences <escape-sequences>`, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that disables most escape sequence processing. Strings may also be created from other objects using the :class:`str` diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index fa7608f94c3..384b854a987 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -541,6 +541,11 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. ( single: \u; escape sequence single: \U; escape sequence +.. _escape-sequences: + +Escape sequences +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by Standard C. The recognized escape sequences are: |