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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2012-04-29 01:53:20 (GMT)
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2012-04-29 01:53:20 (GMT)
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#14155: merge note about \b from 3.2.
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@@ -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