[issue34156] Nail down and document the behavior of range expressions in RE character classes

2018-07-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Zack Weinberg added the comment: Also, whether or not the current behavior is the intended behavior, I think programmers would appreciate an explicit statement of whether or not it might change in the future. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue34156] Nail down and document the behavior of range expressions in RE character classes

2018-07-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
New submission from Zack Weinberg : The documentation of the semantics of range expressions in regular expression character classes is not precise enough. All it says is Ranges of characters can be indicated by giving two characters and separating them by a '-', for example [a-z] will mat