New submission from Kevin Raeder <raeder@ucar.edu>: I've found the Regular Expression HOWTO to be very helpful (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html?highlight=regular%20expressions). One inconsistency I noticed is that the intro to metacharacters says "Metacharacters are not active inside classes. " But farther down we learn that a class can be constructed using \s: [\s,.], which is "all white space characters , and ." It's not the 4 characters "\ s , and ." So I think the first statement would be clearer as "Metacharacters (except \) are not active inside classes. " ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 310647 nosy: docs@python, kdraeder priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Metacharacter (\) documentation suggestion _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32658> _______________________________________