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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-04-05 03:08:17 (GMT) |
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bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d)
Co-authored-by: Mike cm <mikecmcleod@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index d574c37..c4ebbd3 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the same as ``[a-c]``, which uses a range to express the same set of characters. If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be ``[a-z]``. -Metacharacters are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will +Metacharacters (except ``\``) are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its special nature. |