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bpo-38294: Explicitly list characters re.escape no longer escapes
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bpo-38294: Make the second example list all punctuation that is - and…
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bpo-38294: Change the string being escaped in the first example
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bpo-38294: Restore original version of the third example.
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions Doc/library/re.rst
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Expand Up @@ -931,8 +931,8 @@ form.
This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may
have regular expression metacharacters in it. For example::

>>> print(re.escape('python.exe'))
python\.exe
>>> print(re.escape('http://www.python.org'))
http://www\.python\.org

>>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:"
>>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars))
Expand All @@ -955,7 +955,9 @@ form.

.. versionchanged:: 3.7
Only characters that can have special meaning in a regular expression
are escaped.
are escaped. As a result, ``'!'``, ``'"'``, ``'%'``, ``"'"``, ``','``,
``'/'``, ``':'``, ``';'``, ``'<'``, ``'='``, ``'>'``, ``'@'``, and
``"`"`` are no longer escaped.


.. function:: purge()
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Expand Up @@ -356,3 +356,4 @@ whatsnew/changelog,,::,default::BytesWarning
whatsnew/changelog,,::,default::DeprecationWarning
library/importlib.metadata,,:main,"EntryPoint(name='wheel', value='wheel.cli:main', group='console_scripts')"
library/importlib.metadata,,`,loading the metadata for packages for the indicated ``context``.
library/re,,`,"`"
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst
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Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation