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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-06-11 16:15:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2016-06-11 16:15:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 9bd85b83f66d31e39282244e455275bd9cd91bb1 (patch) | |
| tree | f66a844daa9f876509c1bc53cbeee2da15a09eb7 /Doc/library/re.rst | |
| parent | d35bf032840bcbf130a146eb35e332f9fa925cd9 (diff) | |
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Issue #27030: Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter in
regular expressions now are errors.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/re.rst')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index ceb7959..52d2ec0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ The special characters are: The special sequences consist of ``'\'`` and a character from the list below. -If the ordinary character is not on the list, then the resulting RE will match -the second character. For example, ``\$`` matches the character ``'$'``. +If the ordinary character is not ASCII digit or ASCII letter, then the +resulting RE will match the second character. For example, ``\$`` matches the +character ``'$'``. ``\number`` Matches the contents of the group of the same number. Groups are numbered @@ -438,9 +439,8 @@ three digits in length. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 The ``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` escape sequences have been added. -.. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.6 - Unknown escapes consist of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter now raise a - deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.6. +.. versionchanged:: 3.6 + Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter now are errors. .. seealso:: @@ -528,11 +528,11 @@ 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. This flag makes sense only with bytes patterns. + for Unicode (str) patterns. This flag can be used only with bytes patterns. - .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.6 - Deprecated the use of :const:`re.LOCALE` with string patterns or - :const:`re.ASCII`. + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + :const:`re.LOCALE` can be used only with bytes patterns and is + not compatible with :const:`re.ASCII`. .. data:: M @@ -738,9 +738,8 @@ form. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string. - .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.6 - Unknown escapes consist of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter now raise a - deprecation warning and will be forbidden in Python 3.6. + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter now are errors. .. function:: subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0) |