#14236: merge with 3.2.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 9195e0aec8..69bd1c7e70 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ resulting RE will match the second character.
              In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the whole
              range of Unicode digits.
     \D       Matches any non-digit character; equivalent to [^\d].
-    \s       Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v].
+    \s       Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v] in
+             bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag.
+             In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will match the whole
+             range of Unicode whitespace characters.
     \S       Matches any non-whitespace character; equiv. to [^ \t\n\r\f\v].
     \w       Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]
              in bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag.