From 03fbc599bb7aaa15ffbbe5a51cc9a21c6a0ba4c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:55:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add more specific definition of \w --- Doc/library/re.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 8d62e3bf4d8d83..e901b24432f2f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -523,10 +523,11 @@ character ``'$'``. ``\w`` For Unicode (str) patterns: - Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters - that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and - the underscore. If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only - ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. + Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most alphanumeric characters + as well as the underscore. In Unicode, alphanumeric characters are defined + to be the general categories L + N + (see `Unicode General Category Values `_). + If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. For 8-bit (bytes) patterns: Matches characters considered alphanumeric in the ASCII character set; From 2cca82a2243d8f212e049f4c4242048f31882783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 17:34:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update Doc/library/re.rst Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- Doc/library/re.rst | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index e901b24432f2f8..f33b36855e2e76 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -523,10 +523,8 @@ character ``'$'``. ``\w`` For Unicode (str) patterns: - Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most alphanumeric characters - as well as the underscore. In Unicode, alphanumeric characters are defined - to be the general categories L + N - (see `Unicode General Category Values `_). + Matches Unicode word characters; this includes alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`) + as well as the underscore (``_``). If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched. For 8-bit (bytes) patterns: pFad - Phonifier reborn

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