gh-151819: Clarify the conditional-pattern email example in re docs (GH-153072)

serhiy-storchaka · claude · miss-islington · commit 1925d3d227f0 · 2026-07-05T07:48:21.000Z
The example pattern does not fail to match '<user@host.com' outright -- re.search finds 'user@host.com' in it; it only fails to match the whole string. Reword to say so. (cherry picked from commit fe9c721) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -512,8 +512,9 @@ The special characters are:
    *name* exists, and with ``no-pattern`` if it doesn't. ``no-pattern`` is
    optional and can be omitted. For example,
    ``(<)?(\w+@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)(?(1)>|$)`` is a poor email matching pattern, which
-   will match with ``'<user@host.com>'`` as well as ``'user@host.com'``, but
-   not with ``'<user@host.com'`` nor ``'user@host.com>'``.
+   matches ``'<user@host.com>'`` as well as ``'user@host.com'``, but does not
+   match ``'<user@host.com'`` nor ``'user@host.com>'`` in their entirety
+   (:func:`re.search` finds only ``'user@host.com'`` in the former).
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.12
       Group *id* can only contain ASCII digits.
