[issue42272] Warning filter message/module documentation is misleading

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[issue42272] Warning filter message/module documentation is misleading

Change by Kevin Locke : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +22084 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/23172 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue42272] Warning filter message/module documentation is misleading

New submission from Kevin Locke : "The Warnings Filter" section of the documentation for the warnings module describes the message and module filters as "a string containing a regular expression". While that is true when they are arguments to the filterwarnings function, it is not true when