diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index a5bd5c73f2f..0336121c2bc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -1344,7 +1344,8 @@ when there is no match, you can test whether there was a match with a simple Escapes such as ``\n`` are converted to the appropriate characters, and numeric backreferences (``\1``, ``\2``) and named backreferences (``\g<1>``, ``\g``) are replaced by the contents of the - corresponding group. + corresponding group. The backreference ``\g<0>`` will be + replaced by the entire match. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.