From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:41:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #5241: document missing A in regex howto.
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a2~125
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce9fbd3662f87f5e3192b0c4c1c39a6c4ef452ee;p=python

#5241: document missing A in regex howto.
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index 3ed53686d3..262386781d 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -540,6 +540,10 @@ of each one.
 | :const:`VERBOSE`, :const:`X`    | Enable verbose REs, which can be organized |
 |                                 | more cleanly and understandably.           |
 +---------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
+| :const:`ASCII`, :const:`A`      | Makes several escapes like ``\w``, ``\b``, |
+|                                 | ``\s`` and ``\d`` match only on ASCII      |
+|                                 | characters with the respective property.   |
++---------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
 
 
 .. data:: I
@@ -594,6 +598,15 @@ of each one.
    newline; without this flag, ``'.'`` will match anything *except* a newline.
 
 
+.. data:: A
+          ASCII
+   :noindex:
+
+   Make ``\w``, ``\W``, ``\b``, ``\B``, ``\s`` and ``\S`` perform ASCII-only
+   matching instead of full Unicode matching. This is only meaningful for
+   Unicode patterns, and is ignored for byte patterns.
+
+
 .. data:: X
           VERBOSE
    :noindex: