New submission from dananntang: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax Section 7.2.1. Regular Expression Syntax Documentation for \w and \W are wrong. To be specific: \w is to match any non-alphanumeric character, while \W is to match alphanumeric character Fix: swap documentation for \w and \W ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 266291 nosy: dananntang, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Documentation for regular expression alphanumeric matching are swapped. https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27116> _______________________________________