[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedy resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 0dad7486e7d7bc2e0f1b0a4f44d9c28064762be5 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-40016: re docstring: Clarify relationship of inline and argument flags (GH-19078) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0dad7486e7d7bc2e0f1b0a4f44d9c280647

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 686d508c26fafb57dfe463c4f55b20013dad1441 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-40016: re docstring: Clarify relationship of inline and argument flags (GH-19078) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/686d508c26fafb57dfe463c4f55b20013da

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +18522 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19162 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset 89a2209ae6fc5f39868621799730e16f931eb497 by Ram Rachum in branch 'master': bpo-40016: re docstring: Clarify relationship of inline and argument flags (#19078) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/89a2209ae6fc5f39868621799730e16f931eb497 -

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington nosy_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 pull_requests: +18521 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19161 ___ Python tracker _

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The docstring is currently 103 lines. I intentionally replaced 1 line with 1 line that I believe to be more informative and kept the expansion of the other line to 3 lines. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The docstring line in question is (?aiLmsux) Set the A, I, L, M, S, U, or X flag for the RE (see below). This is exceptional in that other syntaxes in the special characters list use lower case only for syntax variables (m, n, name, id/name, yes, no). Here

[issue40016] Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- title: Clarify flag case in `re` module -> Clarify flag case in `re` module docstring ___ Python tracker ___