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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 09:50:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 09:50:02 (GMT) |
| commit | bd48d27944453ad83d3ce37b2c867fa0d59a1c15 (patch) | |
| tree | f5585b5ce3995541ed6cce7bb4daef97f936be89 /Doc/library/re.rst | |
| parent | 352601ca00376aaf07d4399096f985d3d8ecb96f (diff) | |
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Issue #22493: Inline flags now should be used only at the start of the
regular expression. Deprecation warning is emitted if uses them in the
middle of the regular expression.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 5297f0b..87cd553 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -224,12 +224,8 @@ The special characters are: flags are described in :ref:`contents-of-module-re`.) This is useful if you wish to include the flags as part of the regular expression, instead of passing a *flag* argument to the - :func:`re.compile` function. - - Note that the ``(?x)`` flag changes how the expression is parsed. It should be - used first in the expression string, or after one or more whitespace characters. - If there are non-whitespace characters before the flag, the results are - undefined. + :func:`re.compile` function. Flags should be used first in the + expression string. ``(?:...)`` A non-capturing version of regular parentheses. Matches whatever regular |