Python warning: lyx_pot.py:607: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
Scott Kostyshak
skostysh at lyx.org
Sun Jun 9 17:17:55 UTC 2024
On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 09:27:19PM GMT, José Matos wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-06-08 at 12:14 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > Another question: from googling it seems that the command
> >
> > python -W error foobar.py
> >
> > would give an error (which hopefully would stop the build).
>
>
> According to the man page there is no space in between, it should be -
> Werror or even -We.
>
> But just like for C++ code I prefer for the warning to be a warning.
> :-)
Fair enough ;)
> > I haven't tested, but would the way to ask our build systems to use
> > the flag be to use the PYTHON environment variable? (./configure --
> > help tells me this is used)?
>
> Please no, I am still traumatized with our use of python -tt (that by
> the way is a no-op in Python 3). :-)
>
> Thus I intend to remove -tt from existence in our code (development).
Ah indeed that will be a nice cleanup.
> > I'm pretending that I will add this flag, but I'm secretly hoping you
> > will add it and fix all warnings before I even see them ;)
> >
> > Scott
>
> BTW in the case that you have fixed there were several problems, \w is
> just the first of them.
> Actually every use of the backslash in that string was a problem (and
> there are 17 in there).
>
> And you are right, linters are very good at catching those cases (here
> I get that directly indication both with emacs and kate, using
> plugins).
Good to know! Thanks for your responses.
Scott
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