[Python-checkins] bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d95e072c419e40b0fb67b8cc8a84087c8a0276ee
commit: d95e072c419e40b0fb67b8cc8a84087c8a0276ee
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-04-04T20:08:17-07:00
summary:

bpo-32658: Regex docs: Fix metacharacter reference (GH-32230)


Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 43571a3eea8b5931769376daf4bdad1c9184ae0d)

Co-authored-by: Mike cm <mikecmcleod at gmail.com>

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M Doc/howto/regex.rst

diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index d574c3736b1cb..c4ebbd311e0fe 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the same as ``[a-c]``, which uses a range to express the same set of
 characters.  If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be
 ``[a-z]``.
 
-Metacharacters are not active inside classes.  For example, ``[akm$]`` will
+Metacharacters (except ``\``) are not active inside classes.  For example, ``[akm$]`` will
 match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is
 usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its
 special nature.