From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:52:30 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: #14155: add a note about \b.
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=285e51b7e025b3aae7149a4eaa544e937c6bb37e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#14155: add a note about \b.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index b4e055701102..07868b2a6fca 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ accepted by the regular expression parser::
    \r      \t      \v      \x
    \\
 
+(Note that ``\b`` is used to represent word boundaries, and means "backspace"
+only inside character classes.)
+
 Octal escapes are included in a limited form.  If the first digit is a 0, or if
 there are three octal digits, it is considered an octal escape. Otherwise, it is
 a group reference.  As for string literals, octal escapes are always at most