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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 040a533da7..3c2ab12976 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -2021,8 +2021,9 @@ API and Feature Removals ------------------------ * Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in - regular expressions will now cause an error. The :const:`re.LOCALE` - flag can now only be used with binary patterns. + regular expressions will now cause an error. In replacement templates for + :func:`re.sub` they are still allowed, but deprecated. + The :const:`re.LOCALE` flag can now only be used with binary patterns. * ``inspect.getmoduleinfo()`` was removed (was deprecated since CPython 3.3). :func:`inspect.getmodulename` should be used for obtaining the module |