From 73aa5686ccf420fe5c5ce80ffed5c9c37b38589c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:29:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove octal escapes from unicode escape handling

Fixes #11673
---
 lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
index f2162814da8..989c52e2035 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ _ESCAPE_SEQUENCE_RE = re.compile(r'''
     ( \\U{0}           # 8-digit hex escapes
     | \\u{1}           # 4-digit hex escapes
     | \\x{2}           # 2-digit hex escapes
-    | \\[0-7]{{1,3}}   # Octal escapes
     | \\N\{{[^}}]+\}}  # Unicode characters by name
     | \\[\\'"abfnrtv]  # Single-character escapes
     )'''.format(_HEXCHAR*8, _HEXCHAR*4, _HEXCHAR*2), re.UNICODE | re.VERBOSE)