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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-08-11 00:31:57 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-08-11 00:31:57 (GMT)
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This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
those found in Emacs. It is always available.
-By default the patterns are Emacs-style regular expressions; there is
+By default the patterns are Emacs-style regular expressions,
+with one exception. There is
a way to change the syntax to match that of several well-known
-\UNIX{} utilities.
+\UNIX{} utilities. The exception is that Emacs' \samp{\e s}
+pattern is not supported, since the original implementation references
+the Emacs syntax tables.
This module is 8-bit clean: both patterns and strings may contain null
bytes and characters whose high bit is set.