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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2014-12-01 09:50:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2014-12-01 09:50:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 22a309a43458eab762c0d0cf508ff6807fc9b980 (patch) | |
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Issue #21032: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or
re.ASCII. It was newer worked.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index d1823aa..60ded8b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ form. current locale. The use of this flag is discouraged as the locale mechanism is very unreliable, and it only handles one "culture" at a time anyway; you should use Unicode matching instead, which is the default in Python 3 - for Unicode (str) patterns. + for Unicode (str) patterns. This flag makes sense only with bytes patterns. + + .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.6 + Deprecated the use of :const:`re.LOCALE` with string patterns or + :const:`re.ASCII`. .. data:: M |