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authorCheryl Sabella <cheryl.sabella@gmail.com>2018-03-04 23:06:57 (GMT)
committerNed Deily <nad@python.org>2018-03-04 23:06:57 (GMT)
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bpo-30147: Add re.escape changes to 3.7 What's New (GH-5978)
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@@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ Changes in the Python API
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25054` and :issue:`32308`.)
+* Change :func:`re.escape` to only escape regex special characters instead
+ of escaping all characters other than ASCII letters, numbers, and ``'_'``.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29995`.)
+
* :class:`tracemalloc.Traceback` frames are now sorted from oldest to most
recent to be more consistent with :mod:`traceback`.
(Contributed by Jesse Bakker in :issue:`32121`.)