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Add link to string escape sequences in re module
wulmer Jul 22, 2023
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Introduce header for escape sequences and use more common name for re…
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Merge branch 'main' into add-reference-to-string-escapes-in-re-module…
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/re.rst
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Expand Up @@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ character ``'$'``.
single: \x; in regular expressions
single: \\; in regular expressions

Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also
accepted by the regular expression parser::
Most of the :ref:`escape sequences <escape-sequences>` supported by Python
string literals are also accepted by the regular expression parser::

\a \b \f \n
\N \r \t \u
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
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Expand Up @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. (

.. _escape-sequences:


Escape sequences
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and
bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by
Standard C. The recognized escape sequences are:
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