From 52804b38016d304754e3fc6fcfbb69d761176f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 01:59:16 -0700 Subject: [3.12] gh-102111: Add link to string escape sequences in re module (GH-106995) (#107096) Co-authored-by: wulmer Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood --- Doc/library/re.rst | 4 ++-- Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 629ee47..3f03f03 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ character ``'$'``. single: \x; in regular expressions single: \\; in regular expressions -Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also -accepted by the regular expression parser:: +Most of the :ref:`escape sequences ` supported by Python +string literals are also accepted by the regular expression parser:: \a \b \f \n \N \r \t \u diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 47062f8..dde7ba1 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. ( .. _escape-sequences: + +Escape sequences +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by Standard C. The recognized escape sequences are: -- cgit v0.12