diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 629ee472cca681..3f03f0341d8166 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ character ``'$'``. single: \x; in regular expressions single: \\; in regular expressions -Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also -accepted by the regular expression parser:: +Most of the :ref:`escape sequences ` supported by Python +string literals are also accepted by the regular expression parser:: \a \b \f \n \N \r \t \u diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 47062f86810e91..dde7ba1d941dce 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. ( .. _escape-sequences: + +Escape sequences +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by Standard C. The recognized escape sequences are: