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| author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-02-19 19:32:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-02-19 19:32:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 3bacf6126522a9b3bcb6be0c4f3ee6a895dfe772 (patch) | |
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bpo-35584: Clarify role of caret in a class class (GH-11946)
https://bugs.python.org/issue35584
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index b09f748..d385d99 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ special nature. You can match the characters not listed within the class by :dfn:`complementing` the set. This is indicated by including a ``'^'`` as the first character of the -class; ``'^'`` outside a character class will simply match the ``'^'`` -character. For example, ``[^5]`` will match any character except ``'5'``. +class. For example, ``[^5]`` will match any character except ``'5'``. If the +caret appears elsewhere in a character class, it does not have special meaning. +For example: ``[5^]`` will match either a ``'5'`` or a ``'^'``. Perhaps the most important metacharacter is the backslash, ``\``. As in Python string literals, the backslash can be followed by various characters to signal |