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Issue #27800: Merge RE repetition doc from 3.5 into 3.6

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Martin Panter 10 years ago
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@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ how the regular expressions around them are interpreted. Regular
expression pattern strings may not contain null bytes, but can specify
the null byte using a ``\number`` notation such as ``'\x00'``.
Repetition qualifiers (``*``, ``+``, ``?``, ``{m,n}``, etc) cannot be
directly nested. This avoids ambiguity with the non-greedy modifier suffix
``?``, and with other modifiers in other implementations. To apply a second
repetition to an inner repetition, parentheses may be used. For example,
the expression ``(?:a{6})*`` matches any multiple of six ``'a'`` characters.
The special characters are:

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