PY3.W1402

Anomalous unicode escape in string

Used when an escape like \u is encountered in a byte string where it has no effect.

Noncompliant Code:

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print(b'\u{0}'.format('0394'))

Compliant Code:

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print(b'\\u{0}'.format('0394'))

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