From: Cheryl Sabella <cheryl.sabella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 23:06:57 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: bpo-30147: Add re.escape changes to 3.7 What's New (GH-5978)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~2129
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18fd89246333bfa1b76c1623df689214f3ce2bf3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-30147: Add re.escape changes to 3.7 What's New (GH-5978)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 46f4f13aab47..9e65488e37d6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ Changes in the Python API
 
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25054` and :issue:`32308`.)
 
+* Change :func:`re.escape` to only escape regex special characters instead
+  of escaping all characters other than ASCII letters, numbers, and ``'_'``.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29995`.)
+
 * :class:`tracemalloc.Traceback` frames are now sorted from oldest to most
   recent to be more consistent with :mod:`traceback`.
   (Contributed by Jesse Bakker in :issue:`32121`.)