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Expand Up @@ -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 <https://unicode.org/reports/tr44/#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;
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