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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-12-20 03:14:48 (GMT) |
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gh-69929: re docs: Add more specific definition of \w (GH-92015)
(cherry picked from commit 36a0b1d0dddbdf324d98071ea31e7e9151eea6d5)
Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index a40c99b..716d340 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -526,10 +526,9 @@ character ``'$'``. ``\w`` For Unicode (str) patterns: - Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters - that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and - the underscore. If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only - ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. + Matches Unicode word characters; this includes alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`) + as well as the underscore (``_``). + If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. For 8-bit (bytes) patterns: Matches characters considered alphanumeric in the ASCII character set; |