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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2017-09-04 21:58:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-04 21:58:31 (GMT) |
| commit | d50ce4fcc9b481b66ce594f291dec14251b16ba5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c378f5f01b7b64517277a0b069062aaf4c6aed3 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 1dba3789e335f06e3b01cdc84070f2e828c9b861 (diff) | |
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[3.6] Added effect of re.ASCII and reworded slightly (GH-1782) (#3313)
(cherry picked from commit c9d6dbc2900ace9564b8f67e63617be747355c6b)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 7a51abd..56fc4ed 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -542,9 +542,11 @@ form. .. data:: I IGNORECASE - Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will match - lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale - and works for Unicode characters as expected. + Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will also + match lowercase letters. The current locale does not change the effect of + this flag. Full Unicode matching (such as ``Ü`` matching ``ü``) also + works unless the :const:`re.ASCII` flag is also used to disable non-ASCII + matches. .. data:: L |