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This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
those found in Perl. It's 8-bit clean: the strings being processed
may contain both null bytes and characters whose high bit is set. Regular
expression pattern strings may not contain null bytes, but can specify
the null byte using the \number notation.
Characters with the high bit set may be included. The re
module is always available.
Regular expressions use the backslash character ("\") to
indicate special forms or to allow special characters to be used
without invoking their special meaning. This collides with Python's
usage of the same character for the same purpose in string literals;
for example, to match a literal backslash, one might have to write
'\\\\' as the pattern string, because the regular expression
must be "\\", and each backslash must be expressed as
"\\" inside a regular Python string literal.
The solution is to use Python's raw string notation for regular
expression patterns; backslashes are not handled in any special way in
a string literal prefixed with "r". So r"\n" is a
two-character string containing "\" and "n",
while "\n" is a one-character string containing a newline.
Usually patterns will be expressed in Python code using this raw
string notation.
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