From: Ricardo Bánffy <rbanffy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 20:54:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-38294: Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation. (GH-16442)
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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.
---

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