From: Brian Ward <bri@aem7.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 07:03:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Added effect of re.ASCII and reworded slightly (#1782)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~751
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9d6dbc2900ace9564b8f67e63617be747355c6b;p=python

Added effect of re.ASCII and reworded slightly (#1782)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 131f3722c3..96338dc27b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -541,9 +541,11 @@ form.
 .. data:: I
           IGNORECASE
 
-   Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will match
-   lowercase letters, too.  This is not affected by the current locale
-   and works for Unicode characters as expected.
+   Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will also
+   match lowercase letters.  The current locale does not change the effect of
+   this flag.  Full Unicode matching (such as ``Ü`` matching ``ü``) also
+   works unless the :const:`re.ASCII` flag is also used to disable non-ASCII
+   matches.
 
 
 .. data:: L