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| author | wulmer <wulmer@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-07-23 08:50:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-07-23 08:50:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 0af247da0932692592ed85ba8b4a1520627ab4ac (patch) | |
| tree | ffa40129042a1848f2fa1999b269383a4806a2c1 | |
| parent | 9eeb4b485f4f9e13e5cb638e43a0baecb3ff4e86 (diff) | |
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gh-102111: Add link to string escape sequences in re module (#106995)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/re.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 629ee47..3f03f03 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ character ``'$'``. single: \x; in regular expressions single: \\; in regular expressions -Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also -accepted by the regular expression parser:: +Most of the :ref:`escape sequences <escape-sequences>` supported by Python +string literals are also accepted by the regular expression parser:: \a \b \f \n \N \r \t \u diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 47062f8..dde7ba1 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. ( .. _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: |