bpo-30147: Add re.escape changes to 3.7 What's New (GH-5978)

18fd8924 · Cheryl Sabella · Ned Deily · 74382a3f · 18fd8924
Commit 18fd8924 authored Mar 04, 2018 by Cheryl Sabella Committed by Ned Deily Mar 04, 2018
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@@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ Changes in the Python API

  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25054` and :issue:`32308`.)

+* Change :func:`re.escape` to only escape regex special characters instead
+  of escaping all characters other than ASCII letters, numbers, and ``'_'``.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`29995`.)
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 * :class:`tracemalloc.Traceback` frames are now sorted from oldest to most
  recent to be more consistent with :mod:`traceback`.
  (Contributed by Jesse Bakker in :issue:`32121`.)