[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

[Alex Willmer]

Alex Willmer <alex at moreati.org.uk> added the comment:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Vlastimil Brom <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something, but the result in regex seem ok to me:
> \A is treated like A in a character set;

I think it's me who missed something. I'd assumed that all backslash
patterns (including \A for beginning of string) maintain their meaning
in a character class. AFAICT that assumption was wrong.

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