Mirror
/
cpython
mirror of https://github.com/python/cpython
4
1
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; additional backport with 2.7 modification.

This commit is contained in:
Terry Reedy 2011-01-11 00:07:12 +00:00
parent f7dd7998de
commit 1d065958af
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

5
Doc/howto/regex.rst
View File

@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ meaning: ``\[`` or ``\\``.
Some of the special sequences beginning with ``'\'`` represent predefined sets
of characters that are often useful, such as the set of digits, the set of
letters, or the set of anything that isn't whitespace. The following predefined
special sequences are available:
special sequences are a subset of those available. The equivalent classes are
for byte string patterns. For a complete list of sequences and expanded class
definitions for Unicode string patterns, see the last part of
:ref:`Regular Expression Syntax <re-syntax>`.
``\d``
Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class ``[0-9]``.