From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:07:31 +0000 (-0800) Subject: gh-69929: re docs: Add more specific definition of \w (#92015) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0a4~185 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=36a0b1d0dddbdf324d98071ea31e7e9151eea6d5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-69929: re docs: Add more specific definition of \w (#92015) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index f7d46586cf75..cbee70b01d9f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -591,10 +591,9 @@ character ``'$'``. ``\w`` For Unicode (str) patterns: - Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters - that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and - the underscore. If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only - ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. + Matches Unicode word characters; this includes alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`) + as well as the underscore (``_``). + If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. For 8-bit (bytes) patterns: Matches characters considered alphanumeric in the ASCII character set;