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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/re.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index df29c4d390..7c950bfd5b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -931,8 +931,8 @@ form. This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it. For example:: - >>> print(re.escape('python.exe')) - python\.exe + >>> print(re.escape('http://www.python.org')) + http://www\.python\.org >>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:" >>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars)) @@ -955,7 +955,9 @@ form. .. versionchanged:: 3.7 Only characters that can have special meaning in a regular expression - are escaped. + are escaped. As a result, ``'!'``, ``'"'``, ``'%'``, ``"'"``, ``','``, + ``'/'``, ``':'``, ``';'``, ``'<'``, ``'='``, ``'>'``, ``'@'``, and + ``"`"`` are no longer escaped. .. function:: purge() |