[New-bugs-announce] [issue30045] Bad parameter name in re.escape()

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

Currently re.escape() parameter has a name "pattern", but in the documentation the name of the parameter is "string".

The name "pattern" is not correct, and maybe even misleading. The argument of escape() is not a pattern, it is an arbitrary string, and escape() makes a pattern from it by escaping special characters.

It is unlikely that the argument is passed to re.escape() by keyword. Therefore renaming it to "string" shouldn't break existing code.

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 291514
nosy: ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Bad parameter name in re.escape()
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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