Turns out! The $ character in Python regexes also matches before the last
newline at the end of a string, not just at the end of a string. The \Z entity
does what we really want: the *real* end of the string.
This was a vestige from when we used to need the unittest2 library for pre-2.7
compatibility. Now that we require Python 2.7, we aren't using that library
and this indirection wasn't doing any good.
This reverts commit 9c41c39913.
That commit used byte strings for the `if __name__ == '__main__'` pattern,
which was necessary when we were doing unicode_literals. But it is wrong on
Python 3, and now that we're liberated from unicode_literals, we need to go
back to native strings for this comparison.
Include import of __future__ features division, absolute_imports and
print_function everywhere. Don't add unicode_literals yet for it is
harder to convert.
Goal is smoothing the transition to python 3.
Previously, an empty argument was treated as "not an argument at all". Now,
every function call always has at least one argument -- i.e., %foo{} is a
function call whose only argument is "" -- and %foo{,bar} is valid syntax.
This was causing a problem with situation where }} would have semantic meaning
other than escaping a }. Specifically, %func{%func{arg}} contains a }} but
should not escape the }. $} seems to cover this situation. However, ${ is not
permitted as an escape sequence because it looks like the beginning of a symbol
(variable reference) like ${foo}. This is OK because { can be used anywhere as a
literal.
