I've found the Regular Expression HOWTO to be very helpful
(https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html?highlight=regular%20expressions). 
One inconsistency I noticed is that the intro to metacharacters says
"Metacharacters are not active inside classes. "
But farther down we learn that a class can be constructed using \s: [\s,.],
which is "all white space characters , and ."
It's not the 4 characters "\ s , and ."
So I think the first statement would be clearer as
"Metacharacters (except \) are not active inside classes. "

I would like to help with this issue. Is that acceptable?

Sure!  Thanks for paying attention to my suggestion.
Kevin

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:42 AM mike mcleod <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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Mike, are you still working on this issue?

Sorry, forgot this one. Would you like me to move this forward? Or do you want to take it? I don't mind either way.

Feel free, it's all yours

After sync'ing to upstream/main and then running make html I get: ...
checking consistency... done
preparing documents... failed

Warning, treated as error:
unsupported theme option 'license_url' given
make: *** [Makefile:53: build] Error 2

I cant see anything from googling the error above.
This is before I have made any changes.

Did you run ``make venv`` to setup your virtual environment? Sphynx themes are usually pip dependencies, so if you're getting a "missing theme" error, it sounds like your virtual environment is not setup right.

New changeset 43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d by Mike cm in branch 'main':
bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d

Thanks for the patch!

New changeset d95e072c419e40b0fb67b8cc8a84087c8a0276ee by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10':
bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d95e072c419e40b0fb67b8cc8a84087c8a0276ee

New changeset 31c9e35e5360ba91fc6b81b23eb21dd3c39e2257 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9':
bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/31c9e35e5360ba91fc6b81b23eb21dd3c39e2257