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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 79b8d3b..72bc46a 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 |