#14155: add a note about \b.

diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 02251cf9d53e7df3d87e12aa9fd5bfc7efd7cefa..b82b39797e2806af39e3a0ef1bfdaab5eb8fd7b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -398,6 +398,9 @@ accepted by the regular expression parser::
    \r      \t      \v      \x
    \\
 
+(Note that ``\b`` is used to represent word boundaries, and means "backspace"
+only inside character classes.)
+
 Octal escapes are included in a limited form: If the first digit is a 0, or if
 there are three octal digits, it is considered an octal escape. Otherwise, it is
 a group reference.  As for string literals, octal escapes are always at most