From 1d065958af4739f6011e3fb44b66593044b1293d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Reedy Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:07:12 +0000 Subject: Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; additional backport with 2.7 modification. --- Doc/howto/regex.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index 49cd65e..1005c23 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ meaning: ``\[`` or ``\\``. Some of the special sequences beginning with ``'\'`` represent predefined sets of characters that are often useful, such as the set of digits, the set of letters, or the set of anything that isn't whitespace. The following predefined -special sequences are available: +special sequences are a subset of those available. The equivalent classes are +for byte string patterns. For a complete list of sequences and expanded class +definitions for Unicode string patterns, see the last part of +:ref:`Regular Expression Syntax `. ``\d`` Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class ``[0-9]``. -- cgit v0.12