Issue 15606: re.VERBOSE whitespace behavior not completely documented

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#15606: re.VERBOSE whitespace behavior not completely documented

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Created:
9 months, 2 weeks ago by stevencollins

Modified:
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Reviewers:
ezio.melotti

CC:
roysmith, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, docs_python.org, storchaka, stevencollins_bluegoji.com

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Public.

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Total comments: 2

Created: 9 months, 2 weeks ago

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ezio.melotti

9 months, 2 weeks ago #1

http://bugs.python.org/review/15606/diff/5718/Doc/library/re.rst
File Doc/library/re.rst (right):

http://bugs.python.org/review/15606/diff/5718/Doc/library/re.rst#newcode540
Doc/library/re.rst:540: extension construct (so, for example, ``(?P<a_or_b> a |
b)`` is a
Reading this it seems to me that ``( ?:`` is allowed.  Maybe saying something
like "within tokens like ``(?:`` or ``(?P<...>``" is better.

http://bugs.python.org/review/15606/diff/5718/Doc/library/re.rst#newcode546
Doc/library/re.rst:546: the leftmost such ``'#'`` through the end of the line
are ignored.
I find this paragraph a bit confusing, and would rephrase it to something like:
"""
All the text after and including the ``'#'`` character is considered as comment
and ignored, unless the ``'#'`` is in a character class or it's preceded by an
unescaped backslash.
"""

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