https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a086dd313e4c79d8bdcaf7c49fd48306e769fce0 commit: a086dd313e4c79d8bdcaf7c49fd48306e769fce0 branch: 3.12 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2024-02-17T15:04:09+02:00 summary:
[3.12] gh-101699: Explain using Match.expand with \g<0> (GH-101701) (GH-115583) Update documentation for re library to explain that a backreference `\g<0>` is expanded to the entire string when using Match.expand(). Note that numeric backreferences to group 0 (`\0`) are not supported. (cherry picked from commit d2d78088530433f475d9304104bbc0dac2536edd) Co-authored-by: Stevoisiak <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/re.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 2ae81d1893a76d..e7d3c32a0fb938 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -1338,7 +1338,8 @@ when there is no match, you can test whether there was a match with a simple Escapes such as ``\n`` are converted to the appropriate characters, and numeric backreferences (``\1``, ``\2``) and named backreferences (``\g<1>``, ``\g<name>``) are replaced by the contents of the - corresponding group. + corresponding group. The backreference ``\g<0>`` will be + replaced by the entire match. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
