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gh-148100: Soft deprecate re.match and re.Pattern.match in favour of prefixmatch #148101

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Soft deprecate re.match and re.Pattern.match in favour of prefixmatch
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Expand Up @@ -1705,15 +1705,21 @@ expressions.
| ``%x``, ``%X`` | ``[-+]?(0[xX])?[\dA-Fa-f]+`` |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+

To extract the filename and numbers from a string like ::
To extract the filename and numbers from a string like:

.. code-block:: text

/usr/sbin/sendmail - 0 errors, 4 warnings

you would use a :c:func:`!scanf` format like ::
you would use a :c:func:`!scanf` format like:

.. code-block:: text

%s - %d errors, %d warnings

The equivalent regular expression would be ::
The equivalent regular expression would be:

.. code-block:: text

(\S+) - (\d+) errors, (\d+) warnings

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