\item[\code{\e b}] Matches the empty string, but only at the
beginning or end of a word. A word is defined as a sequence of
-alphanumeric characters, so the end of a word is indicated by
-whitespace or a non-alphanumeric character. Inside a character range,
+alphanumeric or underscore characters , so the end of a word is indicated by
+whitespace or a non-alphanumeric, non-underscore character. Inside a character range,
\regexp{\e b} represents the backspace character, for compatibility with
Python's string literals.