autorandr /usr/bin/autorandr:210: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' XRANDR_OUTPUT_REGEXP = """(?x) /usr/bin/autorandr:236: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' """ + XRANDR_PROPERTIES_REGEXP + """ | # Properties to include in the profile /usr/bin/autorandr:248: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' XRANDR_OUTPUT_MODES_REGEXP = """(?x) /usr/bin/autorandr:592: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' version = re.search("xrandr program version\s+([0-9\.]+)", version_string).group(1) /usr/bin/autorandr:888: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\+' match = re.match("(?P<w>[0-9]+)x(?P<h>[0-9]+)(?:\+(?P<x>[0-9]+))?(?:\+(?P<y>[0-9]+))?.*", output.options["panning"])

[Castas115]

On a fresh install of autorandr I'm getting this error:
/usr/bin/autorandr:210: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
XRANDR_OUTPUT_REGEXP = """(?x)
/usr/bin/autorandr:236: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
""" + XRANDR_PROPERTIES_REGEXP + """ | # Properties to include in the profile
/usr/bin/autorandr:248: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
XRANDR_OUTPUT_MODES_REGEXP = """(?x)
/usr/bin/autorandr:592: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
version = re.search("xrandr program version\s+([0-9.]+)", version_string).group(1)
/usr/bin/autorandr:888: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '+'
match = re.match("(?P[0-9]+)x(?P[0-9]+)(?:+(?P[0-9]+))?(?:+(?P[0-9]+))?.*", output.options[panning"])

Python 3.12.2

[hughdavenport]

For what it is worth, it works for me on python 3.10.12 and python3.11.0rc1. Perhaps you could try an earlier version to see if you get the same issue or not to rule out the python version.

[peter-fowles]

I am encountering the exact same warning on a fresh install of autorandr, also on python 3.12.2
autorandr still runs just fine. It just outputs that same chain of SyntaxWarnings every time I run it.

[reneas]

I have the exact same warning but it only occured after upgrading from ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 so maybe that is the problem?

[i300220]

Every python code not ported to python 3.12 does that. Therefore autorandr is affected on Fedora 39 and 40. Not a autorandr bug per se.

[pnickerson-cashstar]

Here's a dumb, make it work for now fix:

See what versions of Python you have available:

ls -l /usr/bin/python*

If you have a Python version before 3.12, then you can try that. Use sudo and open the text file /usr/bin/autorandr for editing:

sudo nano /usr/bin/autorandr

At the top, where you see:

#! /usr/bin/python3 -sP

Change it to the earlier version of Python that you have. For example:

#! /usr/bin/python3.11 -sP

Write out and exit. I don't know whether this will mess up any future updates of autorandr that might show up in your OS's package manager.

[patrick96]

Seems to be caused by the following:

A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence now generates a SyntaxWarning, instead of DeprecationWarning. For example, re.compile("\d+.\d+") now emits a SyntaxWarning ("\d" is an invalid escape sequence, use raw strings for regular expression: re.compile(r"\d+.\d+")). In a future Python version, SyntaxError will eventually be raised, instead of SyntaxWarning. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in gh-98401.)

From https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#other-language-changes

autorandr should probably switch to using raw strings when defining regular expressions

[jlombera]

This seems to be a duplicate of #368 , which is already fixed in upstream. Distributions just have to upgrade autorandr (or pull the fix) if they are using python 3.12 by default. (I was just affected too on Debian testing).

[stefan2904]

for the record, Ubuntu 24.04.1 still has this problem,
because it is still on autorandr 1.14-2 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+package/autorandr).
The non-LTS Ubuntu 24.10 is also on autorandr 1.14 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oracular/+package/autorandr).

Debian bookworm is still on autorandr 1.12, though (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/autorandr).

Maybe we could ask @dondelelcaro, the DD who was so kind to upload the old versions, if he plans to update the Ubuntu package.