From 36a0b1d0dddbdf324d98071ea31e7e9151eea6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:07:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] gh-69929: re docs: Add more specific definition of \w (#92015) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- Doc/library/re.rst | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index f7d46586cf7570..cbee70b01d9f46 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -591,10 +591,9 @@ 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 alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`) + as well as the underscore (``_``). + 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;