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212 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Serhiy Storchaka 3557b05c5a bpo-31690: Allow the inline flags "a", "L", and "u" to be used as group flags for RE. (#3885) 2017-10-24 23:31:42 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka cd195e2a7a bpo-31714: Improved regular expression documentation. (#3907) 2017-10-14 11:14:26 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka 0b5e61ddca bpo-30397: Add re.Pattern and re.Match. (#1646) 2017-10-04 20:09:49 +03:00
Henk-Jaap Wagenaar ed94a8b285 bpo-26656: Improve re.compile documentation (GH-3211)
- Link to the regular expressions object documentation
- Clarify that it can be used with more than the two methods currently stated.
2017-08-27 22:41:20 -07:00
Serhiy Storchaka 12d6b5d156 bpo-30398: Add a docstring for re.error. (#1647)
Also document that some attributes may be None.
2017-05-27 16:12:48 +03:00
Brian Ward c9d6dbc290 Added effect of re.ASCII and reworded slightly (#1782) 2017-05-24 00:03:38 -07:00
Serhiy Storchaka 898ff03e1e bpo-30215: Make re.compile() locale agnostic. (#1361)
Compiled regular expression objects with the re.LOCALE flag no longer
depend on the locale at compile time.  Only the locale at matching
time affects the result of matching.
2017-05-05 08:53:40 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka fdbd01151d bpo-10076: Compiled regular expression and match objects now are copyable. (#1000) 2017-04-16 10:16:03 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka 5908300e4b bpo-29995: re.escape() now escapes only special characters. (#1007) 2017-04-13 21:06:43 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka 8fc7bc2b76 bpo-30021: Add examples for re.escape(). (#1048)
And fix the parameter name.
2017-04-13 19:17:36 +03:00
Marco Buttu ed6795e46f bpo-22594: Add a link to the regex module in re documentation (GH-241) 2017-02-26 07:26:23 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 0fa47469a9 merge 2017-02-06 07:15:57 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger d0b9158666 Substitute a more readable f-string 2017-02-06 07:15:31 -08:00
Martin Panter 186b204997 Fix typos in comment and documentation 2016-12-10 05:32:55 +00:00
Serhiy Storchaka ff3dbe9141 Merge documentation for issue #27030 from 3.6. 2016-12-06 19:25:19 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 53c53ea4c5 Issue #27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed
again.  But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.
2016-12-06 19:15:29 +02:00
Ethan Furman c88c80b716 closes issue28082: doc update and NEWS entry 2016-11-21 08:29:31 -08:00
Martin Panter 479eb760f4 Issue #27800: Merge RE repetition doc from 3.5 into 3.6 2016-10-15 01:39:01 +00:00
Martin Panter 684340ede5 Issue #27800: Document limitation and workaround for multiple RE repetitions 2016-10-15 01:18:16 +00:00
Eric V. Smith 605bdae078 Issue 24454: Improve the usability of the re match object named group API 2016-09-11 08:55:43 -04:00
Serhiy Storchaka bd48d27944 Issue #22493: Inline flags now should be used only at the start of the
regular expression.  Deprecation warning is emitted if uses them in the
middle of the regular expression.
2016-09-11 12:50:02 +03:00
Zachary Ware c307672395 We're not that far in the future yet 2016-09-09 15:47:05 -07:00
Benjamin Peterson f46e612e33 repair versionadded directive 2016-09-09 15:34:58 -07:00
Serhiy Storchaka be9a4e5c85 Issue #433028: Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions. 2016-09-10 00:57:55 +03:00
Ned Deily dccc5edfa1 Issue #27327: fix doc typo, noted by Jakub Wilk. 2016-06-15 18:06:32 -04:00
Martin Panter 98e9051577 Add grammatical article to “an ASCII letter” 2016-06-12 06:17:29 +00:00
Terry Jan Reedy 4da945f361 Merge Issue #22558. 2016-06-11 15:06:08 -04:00
Terry Jan Reedy fa089b9b0b Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules.
Reformat header above separator line (added if missing) to a common format.
Patch by Yoni Lavi.
2016-06-11 15:02:54 -04:00
Serhiy Storchaka 9bd85b83f6 Issue #27030: Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and ASCII letter in
regular expressions now are errors.
2016-06-11 19:15:00 +03:00
Berker Peksag 84f387d420 Issue #21593: Clarify that re.search() returns the first match 2016-06-08 14:56:56 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka dba903993a Issue #23921: Standardized documentation whitespace formatting.
Original patch by James Edwards.
2016-05-10 12:01:23 +03:00
Martin Panter 6245cb3c01 Correct “an” → “a” with “Unicode”, “user”, “UTF”, etc
This affects documentation, code comments, and a debugging messages.
2016-04-15 02:14:19 +00:00
Georg Brandl 7ff033bd62 Clarify greedy-qualifier example, avoid HTML. 2016-04-12 07:51:41 +02:00
Georg Brandl 5d94134040 Closes #25910: fix dead and permanently redirected links in the docs. Thanks to SilentGhost for the patch. 2016-02-26 19:37:12 +01:00
Georg Brandl 8c16cb9f65 Closes #26435: fix syntax in directives. Thanks to Jakub Stasiak. 2016-02-25 20:17:45 +01:00
Zachary Ware a99ab63d06 Merge with 3.4 2015-11-11 23:33:50 -06:00
Zachary Ware 71a0b43854 Rewrite re.VERBOSE section.
It now has slightly better rationale and a less awkward wording in the
explanation.

Inspired by a report of a neither/or conflict by 'animalize' on docs@.
2015-11-11 23:32:14 -06:00
Serhiy Storchaka a54aae0683 Issue #23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of ``'\'``
and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in
Python 3.6.
2015-03-24 22:58:14 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 4eea62fd2e Issues #814253, #9179: Group references and conditional group references now
work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions.
2015-02-21 10:07:35 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 83e802796c Issue #22818: Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now
raises a warning.  Patterns that can only match empty strings are now
rejected.
2015-02-03 11:04:19 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 22a309a434 Issue #21032: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or
re.ASCII. It was newer worked.
2014-12-01 11:50:07 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka ad446d57a9 Issue #22578: Added attributes to the re.error class. 2014-11-10 13:49:00 +02:00
Georg Brandl 0235709b8c merge with 3.4 2014-10-28 21:41:58 +01:00
Georg Brandl bb2d669292 Closes #22736: move seealso to the bottom of the section about RE syntax. 2014-10-28 21:41:51 +01:00
Serhiy Storchaka 7438e4b56f Issue 1519638: Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub()
and re.subn().
2014-10-10 11:06:31 +03:00
Raymond Hettinger c6f22cc0a6 Remove unused leftover stray line 2014-08-04 00:21:11 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger c566431bf0 Improve regex tokenizer example by using re.finditer().
Also, improve variable names and fix column numbers
in the generated output.
2014-08-03 23:38:54 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 8323f68f3e Issue 21977: Minor improvements to the regexes in the tokenizer example. 2014-07-14 01:52:00 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 642d4b654f #21690: fix a couple of links in the docs of the re module. Noticed by Julian Gilbey. 2014-06-20 00:52:11 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka a3369a524c Issues #814253, #9179: Warnings now are raised when group references and
conditional group references are used in lookbehind assertions in regular
expressions.
2015-02-21 12:08:52 +02:00
Terry Jan Reedy 0edb5c1668 Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search. 2014-05-30 16:19:59 -04:00
Serhiy Storchaka 2a6145290b Removed spaces before commas and periods. 2013-12-23 18:21:57 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka a4d170d985 Removed spaces before commas and periods. 2013-12-23 18:20:51 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 475546facf Fixed regex match representation in an example. 2013-12-02 20:23:19 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 32eddc1bbc Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method,
which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.

Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
2013-11-23 23:20:30 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 7571941db6 #19639: update the repr of the match objects in the docs. Patch by Claudiu Popa. 2013-11-23 20:27:27 +02:00
Georg Brandl daa1fa991c Back out accidentally pushed changeset b51218966201. 2013-10-13 09:32:59 +02:00
Georg Brandl 4300019e1a Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method, which anchor the
pattern at both ends of the string to match.

Patch by Matthew Barnett.
Closes #16203.
2013-10-13 09:18:45 +02:00
Georg Brandl 2070e83f28 Fix example in backreference description. Found by Alexander Heger on docs@. 2013-10-06 12:58:20 +02:00
Georg Brandl 3c6780c6d8 Closes #15956: improve documentation of named groups and how to reference them. 2013-10-06 12:08:14 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 7ce22d1940 #16304: merge with 3.2. 2012-11-04 06:59:51 +02:00
Ezio Melotti b87f82f8d4 #16304: clarify match objects docs. Initial patch by Jan Duzinkiewicz. 2012-11-04 06:59:22 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 463badf06c Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular expressions.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
2012-06-23 13:29:19 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 5fe0f4e369 #14519: merge with 3.2. 2012-04-29 11:48:54 +03:00
Ezio Melotti a0b1d1eea2 #14519: fix the regex used in the scanf example. 2012-04-29 11:47:28 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 0ce1649674 #14461: merge with 3.2. 2012-04-29 07:35:22 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 0a6b5419b0 #14461: fix wording. 2012-04-29 07:34:46 +03:00
Ezio Melotti e240947cc0 #14155: merge note about \b from 3.2. 2012-04-29 04:53:20 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 285e51b7e0 #14155: add a note about \b. 2012-04-29 04:52:30 +03:00
Georg Brandl 869ac7895f merge with 3.2 2012-03-17 17:29:39 +01:00
Georg Brandl 3a19e542ff Closes #14250: regex.flags has not only explicit flags but also implicit flags and those from the pattern 2012-03-17 17:29:27 +01:00
Georg Brandl 9758fcfb87 merge with 3.2 2012-03-17 17:26:36 +01:00
Georg Brandl 557a3ec9bb Closes #14343: avoid shadowing builtin input() in example code. 2012-03-17 17:26:27 +01:00
Georg Brandl 5ec6fdb0f6 Closes #14342: remove out-of-date section about avoiding recursion errors. 2012-03-17 17:25:47 +01:00
Georg Brandl 5cd2767144 #14283: merge with 3.2 2012-03-14 08:07:29 +01:00
Georg Brandl 69c7a69cbe Closes #14283: match() and search() are regex methods, not match methods. 2012-03-14 08:02:43 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 6ea00ef25a #14155: merge with 3.2. 2012-02-29 13:40:11 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 443f000bdd #14155: remove duplication about search vs match in re doc. 2012-02-29 13:39:05 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 0b8123d8ae #10713: merge with 3.2. 2012-02-29 11:49:45 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 5a045b9f54 #10713: Improve documentation for \b and \B and add a few tests. Initial patch and tests by Martin Pool. 2012-02-29 11:48:44 +02:00
Sandro Tosi da785fd527 Issue #13690: add re.DEBUG; patch by Filip Gruszczyński 2012-01-01 12:55:20 +01:00
Sandro Tosi 245537a84d merge with 3.2 2012-01-01 12:56:04 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 9987d9351c #13613: merge with 3.2. 2011-12-17 01:20:02 +02:00
Ezio Melotti e5b2ac8987 #13613: fix example in re doc. 2011-12-17 01:17:17 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 27607290a6 #13219: merge with 3.2. 2011-10-20 19:40:44 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 81231d9379 #13219: clarify section about character sets in the re documentation. 2011-10-20 19:38:04 +03:00
Raymond Hettinger eeb905bd7b Merge 2011-10-19 14:10:37 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 5768e0c788 Issue 11931: Minor punctuation/grammar/wording fixups to the regex docs 2011-10-19 14:10:07 -07:00
Sandro Tosi 5f4ea28f49 merge with 3.2 2011-08-19 22:55:24 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 6a633bb878 fix description of \r; thanks to Thomas Waldmann from docs@ 2011-08-19 22:54:50 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 1dc5407020 Clean-up example. 2011-05-23 12:46:20 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 4b244ef255 Clean-up example. 2011-05-23 12:45:34 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger db3dd8a6cc Further beautification of the example 2011-05-13 01:39:22 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 23157e5ddc Further beautification of the example 2011-05-13 01:38:31 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 2584b2f9f3 Neaten up example so it can be cut and pasted. 2011-05-13 01:04:45 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 9c47d778f7 Neaten up example so it can be cut and pasted. 2011-05-13 01:03:50 -07:00
Georg Brandl 93ea851e83 Merge two minor doc changes into default. 2011-05-13 07:01:58 +02:00
Georg Brandl 325477e20e Fix unbound local error in RE tokenizer example. Thanks to Herman L. Jackson. 2011-05-13 06:54:23 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 88fdeb45ef #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the "_". 2011-04-10 12:59:16 +03:00
Senthil Kumaran e858bca356 forward merge from 3.1 2011-03-12 11:42:33 +08:00