mention \N escapes more tersely

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Jonathan Eunice 2017-06-17 12:10:29 -04:00
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@ -443,14 +443,14 @@ character ``'$'``.
Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also
accepted by the regular expression parser::
\a \b \f \n \N{name}
\a \b \f \n \N
\r \t \u \U
\v \x \\
(Note that ``\b`` is used to represent word boundaries, and means "backspace"
only inside character classes.)
``'\u'``, ``'\U'``, and ``'\N{name}'`` escape sequences are only recognized in Unicode
``'\u'``, ``'\U'``, and ``'\N'`` escape sequences are only recognized in Unicode
patterns. In bytes patterns they are not treated specially.
Octal escapes are included in a limited form. If the first digit is a 0, or if