From d95e072c419e40b0fb67b8cc8a84087c8a0276ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 20:08:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra (cherry picked from commit 43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d) Co-authored-by: Mike cm --- Doc/howto/regex.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index d574c3736b1c..c4ebbd311e0f 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the same as ``[a-c]``, which uses a range to express the same set of characters. If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be ``[a-z]``. -Metacharacters are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will +Metacharacters (except ``\``) are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its special nature. -- 2.47.3