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Author r.david.murray
Recipients docs@python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, wumpus
Date 2017-04-23.19:10:05
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re.escape was escaping too much previously, and this has been fixed in 3.7 (and only 3.7, because it may cause testing issues such as you have observed).  See issue 29995.

A note needs to be added to the 'porting' section of whats new covering this.
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2017-04-23 19:10:06r.david.murraysetrecipients: + r.david.murray, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, docs@python, serhiy.storchaka, wumpus
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