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Author pbugnion
Recipients ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, pbugnion
Date 2019-01-29.08:06:07
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The documentation for `re.sub` states that "Unknown escapes such as ``\&`` are left alone.". This is only true for escapes which are not ascii characters, as far as I can tell (c.f. source on https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/sre_parse.py#L1047).

Would there be value in amending that documentation to either remove that sentence or to clarify it? If so, I'm happy to submit a PR on GitHub.
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