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@@ -591,10 +591,9 @@ character ``'$'``.
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``\w``
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For Unicode (str) patterns:
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- Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters
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- that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and
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- the underscore. If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only
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- ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched.
+ Matches Unicode word characters; this includes alphanumeric characters (as defined by :meth:`str.isalnum`)
+ as well as the underscore (``_``).
+ If the :const:`ASCII` flag is used, only ``[a-zA-Z0-9_]`` is matched.
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For 8-bit (bytes) patterns:
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Matches characters considered alphanumeric in the ASCII character set;
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