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

[dananntang]

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

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 266291
nosy: dananntang, docs at 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

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