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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-04-29 01:52:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-04-29 01:52:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 285e51b7e025b3aae7149a4eaa544e937c6bb37e (patch) | |
| tree | 03133f3396535214ac0fcf2d8e5fd131d8150f7e /Doc | |
| parent | 100b889ccd742022b4eaeee29f68e75bdcecdc3b (diff) | |
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#14155: add a note about \b.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index b4e0557..07868b2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ accepted by the regular expression parser:: \r \t \v \x \\ +(Note that ``\b`` is used to represent word boundaries, and means "backspace" +only inside character classes.) + Octal escapes are included in a limited form. If the first digit is a 0, or if there are three octal digits, it is considered an octal escape. Otherwise, it is a group reference. As for string literals, octal escapes are always at most |