to my workflow. Please note that the syntax with = is not necessary for the slurm command line, but is required for snakemake to parse the line correctly, but that is a bug/feature for another time.

Here is the wording from the Python 3.12 lexical analysis page on escape sequences: As in Standard C, up to three octal digits are accepted. Changed in version 3.11: Octal escapes with value larger ...