From e990092fd0e17f79f282f4009ce1676bfde09ab4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Melotti Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:23:25 +0300 Subject: #14236: mention Unicode whitespace in \s documentation. --- Lib/re.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py index 3fd59df..45de5a2 100644 --- a/Lib/re.py +++ b/Lib/re.py @@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ resulting RE will match the second character. In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the whole range of Unicode digits. \D Matches any non-digit character; equivalent to [^\d]. - \s Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v]. + \s Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v] in + bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag. + In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the whole + range of Unicode whitespace characters. \S Matches any non-whitespace character; equiv. to [^ \t\n\r\f\v]. \w Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_] in bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag. -- cgit v0.12