[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 6ee41793d2204c54bdf8f477ae61d016a7eca932 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '2.7': bpo-35584: Clarify role of caret in a class class (GH-11946) (GH-11948) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6ee41793d2204c54bdf8f477ae6

[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset bb9ddee3d4e293f0717f8c167afdf5749ebf843d by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-35584: Clarify role of caret in a class class (GH-11946) (GH-11947) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bb9ddee3d4e293f0717f8c167af

[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 3bacf6126522a9b3bcb6be0c4f3ee6a895dfe772 by Miss Islington (bot) (Raymond Hettinger) in branch 'master': bpo-35584: Clarify role of caret in a class class (GH-11946) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3bacf6126522a9b3bcb6be0c4f3ee6a895dfe7

[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

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[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The caret has several meanings: * Generally, it is a beginning of string: r'^bol' * When MULTILINE is on, it is a beginning of line: r'^bos' * Escaped with a backslash, it is just a caret: r'a\^b' * Immediately after a left bracket, it inverts a characte

[issue35584] Wrong statement about ^ in howto/regex.rst

New submission from Julien Palard : In howto/regex.rst I read: > '^' outside a character class will simply match the '^' character. Which looks wrong, '^' is the "begin anchor", it's a metacharacter that typically won't match '^'. I propose to simply remove the statement, if nobody finds a b