From 44b548dda872c0d4f30afd6b44fd74b053a55ad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 13:59:53 -0400 Subject: #27364: fix "incorrect" uses of escape character in the stdlib. And most of the tools. Patch by Emanual Barry, reviewed by me, Serhiy Storchaka, and Martin Panter. --- Lib/distutils/cmd.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Lib/distutils/cmd.py') diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py index b5d9dc387d..939f795945 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class Command: self._ensure_stringlike(option, "string", default) def ensure_string_list(self, option): - """Ensure that 'option' is a list of strings. If 'option' is + r"""Ensure that 'option' is a list of strings. If 'option' is currently a string, we split it either on /,\s*/ or /\s+/, so "foo bar baz", "foo,bar,baz", and "foo, bar baz" all become ["foo", "bar", "baz"]. -- cgit v1.2.1