[issue18779] Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression HOWTO

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Unfortunately making the sentences pedantically correct also makes them ungainly, and I think people generally assume that underscores are treated as a letter. -- nosy: +akuchling resolution: -> wont fix stage: patch review -> resolved status: open ->

[issue18779] Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression HOWTO

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[issue18779] Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression HOWTO

R. David Murray added the comment: The answer to the question about "alphanumerics" versus "alphanumeric characters" is that is is mostly likely context-dependent, so I'd have to see particular examples to say which I though read better. So, there is no One True Answer for this question, I th

[issue18779] Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression HOWTO

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: In Lib/re.py, starting from line 77 (Python 3.4): \w Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_] in bytes patterns or string patterns with the ASCII flag. In string patterns without the ASCII flag, it will mat

[issue18779] Misleading documentations and comments in regular expression HOWTO

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I was wondering which doc you were alluding it, before I noticed your patch is against the regex HOWTO. The HOWTO seems quite outdated wrt. Python 3. For example "\w" is not equivalent to "[a-zA-Z0-9_]", anymore, except with the ASCII flag. -- title: M