1 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index dfc25ea..60ded8b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ form.
    current locale. The use of this flag is discouraged as the locale mechanism
    is very unreliable, and it only handles one "culture" at a time anyway;
    you should use Unicode matching instead, which is the default in Python 3
-   for Unicode (str) patterns.
+   for Unicode (str) patterns. This flag makes sense only with bytes patterns.
+
+   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.6
+      Deprecated the use of  :const:`re.LOCALE` with string patterns or
+      :const:`re.ASCII`.
 
 
 .. data:: M
@@ -702,6 +706,9 @@ form.
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Added the optional flags argument.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.
+
 
 .. function:: subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)
 
@@ -711,6 +718,9 @@ form.
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Added the optional flags argument.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.
+
 
 .. function:: escape(string)
 
@@ -727,13 +737,36 @@ form.
    Clear the regular expression cache.
 
 
-.. exception:: error
+.. exception:: error(msg, pattern=None, pos=None)
 
    Exception raised when a string passed to one of the functions here is not a
    valid regular expression (for example, it might contain unmatched parentheses)
    or when some other error occurs during compilation or matching.  It is never an
-   error if a string contains no match for a pattern.
+   error if a string contains no match for a pattern.  The error instance has
+   the following additional attributes:
+
+   .. attribute:: msg
+
+      The unformatted error message.
+
+   .. attribute:: pattern
+
+      The regular expression pattern.
+
+   .. attribute:: pos
+
+      The index of *pattern* where compilation failed.
+
+   .. attribute:: lineno
+
+      The line corresponding to *pos*.
+
+   .. attribute:: colno
+
+      The column corresponding to *pos*.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      Added additional attributes.
 
 .. _re-objects:
 
@@ -886,6 +919,8 @@ Match objects support the following methods and attributes:
    (``\g<1>``, ``\g<name>``) are replaced by the contents of the
    corresponding group.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.
 
 .. method:: match.group([group1, ...])