From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:11:11 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: The example regex should be a raw string.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~66
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dce969d2b05238755771bd9c65d86df182ab8390;p=python

The example regex should be a raw string.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index be551dc8a2..0fc7fac8dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ For example::
 
     >>> # Find the ten most common words in Hamlet
     >>> import re
-    >>> words = re.findall('\w+', open('hamlet.txt').read().lower())
+    >>> words = re.findall(r'\w+', open('hamlet.txt').read().lower())
     >>> Counter(words).most_common(10)
     [('the', 1143), ('and', 966), ('to', 762), ('of', 669), ('i', 631),
      ('you', 554),  ('a', 546), ('my', 514), ('hamlet', 471), ('in', 451)]