From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:46:34 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: #14155: add a note about \b.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~872
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48d886b725713a2616e67661e3b1ce7bec806b9e;p=python

#14155: add a note about \b.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 02251cf9d5..b82b39797e 100644
--- 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