New submission from Kevin Raeder <rae...@ucar.edu>:

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. "

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 310647
nosy: docs@python, kdraeder
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Metacharacter (\) documentation suggestion

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