From 86765340825b609a47601f8b0d121f370736bb62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:40:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Tiny fix of IGNORECASE plus removal of a UNICODE reference.
---
Doc/library/re.rst | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index e8650d79ac..2020577aa9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@ The special characters are:
``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``[a-z]`` will match any lowercase letter, and
``[a-zA-Z0-9]`` matches any letter or digit. Character classes such
as ``\w`` or ``\S`` (defined below) are also acceptable inside a
- range, although the characters they match depends on whether :const:`LOCALE`
- or :const:`UNICODE` mode is in force. If you want to include a
- ``']'`` or a ``'-'`` inside a set, precede it with a backslash, or
- place it as the first character. The pattern ``[]]`` will match
- ``']'``, for example.
+ range, although the characters they match depends on whether
+ :const:`ASCII` or :const:`LOCALE` mode is in force. If you want to
+ include a ``']'`` or a ``'-'`` inside a set, precede it with a
+ backslash, or place it as the first character. The pattern ``[]]``
+ will match ``']'``, for example.
You can match the characters not within a range by :dfn:`complementing` the set.
This is indicated by including a ``'^'`` as the first character of the set;
@@ -493,7 +493,8 @@ form.
IGNORECASE
Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like ``[A-Z]`` will match
- lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale.
+ lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale
+ and works for Unicode characters as expected.
.. data:: L
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