commit 7afb766c5dcb1e3caef9ca4c09df055933eede1b
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Thu Apr 03 16:27:27 2008 +0000
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Thu Apr 03 16:27:27 2008 +0000
tree 1dd8587ca7a608f13371047826530189c9e1f580
parent f95ecf7b157f9aa20f33c50f5ca1b4c50de96daa

#2541 Allow unicode escapes in raw strings

Lib/test/test_unicode.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index f7e7cb4..63e10af 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, eval, '\'\\Ufffffffe\'')
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, eval, '\'\\Uffffffff\'')
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, eval, '\'\\U%08x\'' % 0x110000)
+        # Test that raw mode does unicode escapes
+        self.assertEqual(r"\u0020", " ")
 
     def test_repr(self):
         if not sys.platform.startswith('java'):

Python/ast.c

diff --git a/Python/ast.c b/Python/ast.c
index 6a9658a..218436f 100644
--- a/Python/ast.c
+++ b/Python/ast.c
@@ -3231,7 +3231,7 @@
             return NULL;
         }
     }
-    if (!*bytesmode && !rawmode) {
+    if (!*bytesmode) {
         return decode_unicode(s, len, rawmode, c->c_encoding);
     }
     if (*bytesmode) {