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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2017-05-05 05:53:40 (GMT)
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bpo-30215: Make re.compile() locale agnostic. (#1361)
Compiled regular expression objects with the re.LOCALE flag no longer depend on the locale at compile time. Only the locale at matching time affects the result of matching.
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:const:`re.LOCALE` can be used only with bytes patterns and is
not compatible with :const:`re.ASCII`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ Compiled regular expression objects with the :const:`re.LOCALE` flag no
+ longer depend on the locale at compile time. Only the locale at
+ matching time affects the result of matching.
+
.. data:: M
MULTILINE