[docs] [issue27116] Documentation for regular expression alphanumeric matching are swapped. https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax

Xiang Zhang added the comment: I don't think no need to swap. The current doc is right.

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re.findall(r'\W+', 'abcd123_#@@@@') ['#@@@@'] re.findall(r'\w+', 'abcd123_#@@@@') ['abcd123_']

It's apparent that \w match alphanumeric and \W vice versa. ---------- nosy: +xiang.zhang _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27116> _______________________________________