From abd4a0556142e971c22d23243bacd3f0ad6d2299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:40:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue11283 - Clarifying a re pattern in the re module docs for conditional regex --- Doc/library/re.rst | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 49c241d1d93..1d90f791a72 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -295,11 +295,12 @@ The special characters are: match at the beginning of the string being searched. ``(?(id/name)yes-pattern|no-pattern)`` - Will try to match with ``yes-pattern`` if the group with given *id* or *name* - exists, and with ``no-pattern`` if it doesn't. ``no-pattern`` is optional and - can be omitted. For example, ``(<)?(\w+@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)(?(1)>)`` is a poor email - matching pattern, which will match with ``''`` as well as - ``'user@host.com'``, but not with ``'|$)`` is a poor email matching pattern, which + will match with ``''`` as well as ``'user@host.com'``, but + not with ``''`` . The special sequences consist of ``'\'`` and a character from the list below.