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Author	louism
Recipients	docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, louism, mdk, willingc
Date	2019-02-19.14:41:06
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Message-id	<1550587266.8.0.644762310509.issue36038@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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at https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#regex-howto and https://docs.python.org/3.8/howto/regex.html#regex-howto https://docs.python.org/3.7/howto/regex.html#regex-howto https://docs.python.org/3.6/howto/regex.html#regex-howto https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/regex.html#regex-howto https://docs.python.org/3.4/howto/regex.html#regex-howto https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/regex.html#regex-howto The following paragraph seems to have a small issue: " You can match the characters not listed within the class by complementing the set. This is indicated by including a '^' as the first character of the class; '^' outside a character class will simply match the '^' character. For example, [^5] will match any character except '5'. " ^ does not simply match ^ outside a character class since is a special character that represents the start of the string. I think the paragraph should read: You can match the characters not listed within the class by complementing the set. This is indicated by including a '^' as the first character of the class; '^' will act differently outside a character class as explained later. For example, [^5] will match any character except '5'.

at https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
and
https://docs.python.org/3.8/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
https://docs.python.org/3.7/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
https://docs.python.org/3.6/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
https://docs.python.org/3.4/howto/regex.html#regex-howto
https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/regex.html#regex-howto

The following paragraph seems to have a small issue:
"
You can match the characters not listed within the class by complementing the set. This is indicated by including a '^' as the first character of the class; '^' outside a character class will simply match the '^' character. For example, [^5] will match any character except '5'.
"
^ does not simply match ^ outside a character class since is a special character that represents the start of the string. 

I think the paragraph should read: 
You can match the characters not listed within the class by complementing the set. This is indicated by including a '^' as the first character of the class; '^' will act differently outside a character class as explained later. For example, [^5] will match any character except '5'.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-02-19 14:41:06	louism	set	recipients: + louism, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, docs@python, willingc, mdk
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