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authorMark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>2008-08-20 07:40:18 (GMT)
committerMark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>2008-08-20 07:40:18 (GMT)
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Tiny fix of IGNORECASE plus removal of a UNICODE reference.
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@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@ The special characters are:
``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``[a-z]`` will match any lowercase letter, and
``[a-zA-Z0-9]`` matches any letter or digit. Character classes such
as ``\w`` or ``\S`` (defined below) are also acceptable inside a
- range, although the characters they match depends on whether :const:`LOCALE`
- or :const:`UNICODE` mode is in force. If you want to include a
- ``']'`` or a ``'-'`` inside a set, precede it with a backslash, or
- place it as the first character. The pattern ``[]]`` will match
- ``']'``, for example.
+ range, although the characters they match depends on whether
+ :const:`ASCII` or :const:`LOCALE` mode is in force. If you want to
+ include a ``']'`` or a ``'-'`` inside a set, precede it with a
+ backslash, or place it as the first character. The pattern ``[]]``
+ will match ``']'``, for example.
You can match the characters not within a range by :dfn:`complementing` the set.
This is indicated by including a ``'^'`` as the first character of the set;
@@ -493,7 +493,8 @@ form.
IGNORECASE
Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will match
- lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale.
+ lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale
+ and works for Unicode characters as expected.
.. data:: L