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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2024-06-20 21:22:45 (GMT)
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[3.13] gh-111259: Document idiomatic RE pattern (?s:.) that matches any character (GH-120745) (GH-120813)
(cherry picked from commit a2f6f7dd26128b834c6e66fe1ceac3ac751143f5) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The special characters are:
``.``
(Dot.) In the default mode, this matches any character except a newline. If
the :const:`DOTALL` flag has been specified, this matches any character
- including a newline.
+ including a newline. ``(?s:.)`` matches any character regardless of flags.
.. index:: single: ^ (caret); in regular expressions