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Author jwilk
Recipients docs@python, jwilk
Date 2017-05-15.17:33:23
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<https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.LOCALE> reads:
"Make \w, \W, \b, \B, \s and \S dependent on the current locale."

But this is not the only thing this flag does. When combined with re.IGNORECASE,  it also makes case-insesitive matching locale-dependent.
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