mention limitation of \N sequences to Unicode patterns

diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 6a0bbd328541d41ff8b3c2d5b6926ce54e4604a0..94a6acffc92d73cf8b980b66d66dfaa7c3180e95 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ accepted by the regular expression parser::
 (Note that ``\b`` is used to represent word boundaries, and means "backspace"
 only inside character classes.)
 
-``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` escape sequences are only recognized in Unicode
+``'\u'``, ``'\U'``, and ``'\N{name}'`` escape sequences are only recognized in Unicode
 patterns.  In bytes patterns they are not treated specially.
 
 Octal escapes are included in a limited form.  If the first digit is a 0, or if