Fix regex, Doxygen, etc. invalid-escape warnings (v2) #552
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From Python 3.6 onwards, strings containing invalid escape sequences lead to noisy warnings, since these were previously passed through safely but now can be misinterpreted as generic Unicode escapes rather than specific C/Python string sequences.
We're getting a lot of these from the regex-heavy harvester machinery, and from Doxygen backslash escapes (these could be @ signs) in generated headers. It's more than a build-cleanliness issue, since these warnings are scheduled to become syntax errors in an upcoming Python 3.x release.
I've attempted to fix them, using mainly raw r"" strings. Let's see if the CI flags any issues with the generated output.