offlineimap.conf: use raw strings in regex examples #206
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Newer pythons are strict on the escape sequences allowed in normal strings, which can cause issues with regular expressions as most of them do include escape sequences that are not allowed. In those cases, the process will exit with the confusing warning: <string>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.' To help prevent such cases, have the sample configuration use raw strings when using regular expressions. Signed-off-by: Luciano Rocha <[email protected]>
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Newer pythons are strict on the escape sequences allowed in normal strings, which can cause issues with regular expressions as most of them do include escape sequences that are not allowed. In those cases, the process will exit with the confusing warning:
<string>:1: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'To help prevent such cases, have the sample configuration use raw strings when using regular expressions.
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Tested with my own configuration which uses regular expressions with
\.escaped.