[3.11] gh-103360: Add link in stdtypes.rst to escape sequences in lexical_analysis.rst (GH-103638) (#114908)

miss-islington · juswil · terryjreedy · web-flow · commit df5381d8b6ee · 2024-02-02T21:06:35.000Z
(cherry picked from commit d29f57f) Co-authored-by: Justin Williams <97240811+juswil@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ between them will be implicitly converted to a single string literal. That
 is, ``("spam " "eggs") == "spam eggs"``.
 
 See :ref:`strings` for more about the various forms of string literal,
-including supported escape sequences, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that
+including supported :ref:`escape sequences <escape-sequences>`, and the ``r`` ("raw") prefix that
 disables most escape sequence processing.
 
 Strings may also be created from other objects using the :class:`str`
diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -541,6 +541,11 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal.  (
    single: \u; escape sequence
    single: \U; escape sequence
 
+.. _escape-sequences:
+
+Escape sequences
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and
 bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by
 Standard C.  The recognized escape sequences are:
