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GeezerVison is showing github.com — gh-95555: Allow a negated property as a character set member by serhiy-storchaka · Pull Request #152245 · python/cpython

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@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka commented Jun 26, 2026

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Follow-up to gh-95555 (#151969).

A negated multi-range property such as \P{ASCII} or \P{Pattern_Syntax} was rejected inside a character class. Such a property compiles to a complemented charset, so it could not simply be flattened into the member union. It is now set aside and alternated in with the other members:

  • [\P{ASCII}] alone is just the negated charset;
  • [\P{ASCII}abc] becomes [abc] | [^ASCII].

Leading ^ (De Morgan) and double negation ([^\P{ASCII}] = ASCII) are handled by the existing set-complement code, and it composes with the set operations: [\w--\P{ASCII}] is the ASCII word characters.

Category-backed \P{...} (e.g. \P{Lu}, \P{digit}), which is a single CATEGORY opcode, always composed fine; only the multi-range properties were affected.

No news entry: \p{...} is unreleased (.. versionadded:: next), so the lifted restriction never shipped.

  • Issue: re should support \p{...} character properties #95555

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@serhiy-storchaka @claude
pythongh-95555: Allow a negated property as a character set member
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A negated multi-range property such as \P{ASCII} or \P{Pattern_Syntax} was
rejected inside a character class.  Such members are now alternated in with
the other members: [\P{ASCII}abc] becomes [abc] | [^ASCII], and [\P{ASCII}]
alone is just the negated charset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot added the awaiting core review label Jun 26, 2026
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re should support \p{...} character properties #95555
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serhiy-storchaka merged commit 8eb6fb0 into python:main Jun 26, 2026
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@fedonman fedonman mentioned this pull request Aug 27, 2026
gh-95555: Fix a stale comment about negating \P in a character class #156490
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