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authorRicardo Bánffy <rbanffy@gmail.com>2019-10-07 21:54:35 +0100
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2019-10-07 23:54:35 +0300
commit15ae75d660befe643ed42eb2707a557cea97256c (patch)
tree5d21a89bb78b6fd23e888a6dafd0a4204555b241
parent60ec6efd96d95476fe5e38c491491add04f026e5 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-15ae75d660befe643ed42eb2707a557cea97256c.tar.gz
bpo-38294: Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation. (GH-16442)
Prior to 3.7, re.escape escaped many characters that don't have special meaning in Python, but that use to require escaping in other tools and languages. This commit aims to make it clear which characters were, but are no longer escaped.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/re.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst1
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index df29c4d390..7c950bfd5b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -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))
@@ -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()
diff --git a/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv b/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
index a7408620ae..740850cae8 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
+++ b/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
@@ -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,,`,"`"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0bde8c868c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation \ No newline at end of file