@SnoopJeDi on #82747 suggested referring to the str.isalnum() documentation. I can confirm that that's correct: they both map to the Py_UNICODE_ISALNUM macro. I think it's also clearer, so could you do that instead?

Thanks, that's a good suggestion - do you know whether the wording can be more exact, so instead of this includes most alphanumeric characters it can be this includes all alphanumeric characters?

e: or maybe more simply, 'Matches Unicode word characters; this is equivalent to alphanumeric characters as well as the underscore'

I like the idea of referring to the definition of str.isalnum for what regex \w means, but the definition of str.isalnum could also stand to be improved. Right now it says

A character c is alphanumeric if one of the following returns True: c.isalpha(), c.isdecimal(), c.isdigit(), or c.isnumeric()

The definitions of isalpha, isdecimal, etc. refer to various Unicode properties and it's not obvious what the aggregate adds up to. I'd like to see something like this added:

Together, this includes everything in Unicode general categories L* and N*, plus U+005F (underscore).

I think a change like that would be better in a separate PR, so I've opened #96984 for possible discussion.

Thanks @slateny for the PR, and @JelleZijlstra for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.10, 3.11.
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GH-100354 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.

GH-100355 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch.