From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 22:36:39 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.12] gh-118508: Clarify which characters are matched by `\s` (GH-119155) (#123671) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.6~23 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0c9f51561ac09928c7823d0cb5f47064dd4268c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.12] gh-118508: Clarify which characters are matched by `\s` (GH-119155) (#123671) gh-118508: Clarify which characters are matched by `\s` (GH-119155) Clarify re syntax (cherry picked from commit 22fdb8cf899d2dd29f2ac0bf61309af6809719fb) Co-authored-by: Nice Zombies --- diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 813afcc483a2..3c9b99c6438a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -600,10 +600,9 @@ character ``'$'``. ``\s`` For Unicode (str) patterns: - Matches Unicode whitespace characters (which includes - ``[ \t\n\r\f\v]``, and also many other characters, for example the - non-breaking spaces mandated by typography rules in many - languages). + Matches Unicode whitespace characters (as defined by :py:meth:`str.isspace`). + This includes ``[ \t\n\r\f\v]``, and also many other characters, for example the + non-breaking spaces mandated by typography rules in many languages. Matches ``[ \t\n\r\f\v]`` if the :py:const:`~re.ASCII` flag is used.