bpo-40016: re docstring: Clarify relationship of inline and argument flags (#19078)
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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"|" A|B, creates an RE that will match either A or B.
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(...) Matches the RE inside the parentheses.
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The contents can be retrieved or matched later in the string.
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(?aiLmsux) Set the A, I, L, M, S, U, or X flag for the RE (see below).
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(?aiLmsux) The letters set the corresponding flags defined below.
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(?:...) Non-grouping version of regular parentheses.
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(?P<name>...) The substring matched by the group is accessible by name.
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(?P=name) Matches the text matched earlier by the group named name.
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purge Clear the regular expression cache.
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escape Backslash all non-alphanumerics in a string.
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Some of the functions in this module takes flags as optional parameters:
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Each function other than purge and escape can take an optional 'flags' argument
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consisting of one or more of the following module constants, joined by "|".
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A, L, and U are mutually exclusive.
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A ASCII For string patterns, make \w, \W, \b, \B, \d, \D
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match the corresponding ASCII character categories
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(rather than the whole Unicode categories, which is the
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In re docstring, clarify the relationship between inline and argument compile flags.
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