From: Mike cm Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 02:46:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0a7~21 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index 33dca2fc41f9..c4eed8fb1fbe 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the same as ``[a-c]``, which uses a range to express the same set of characters. If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be ``[a-z]``. -Metacharacters are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will +Metacharacters (except ``\``) are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its special nature.