pythongh-102111: Add link to string escape sequences in re module (py…

…thon#106995) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
jtcave · Jul 23, 2023 · 0d1270d · 0d1270d
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ character ``'$'``.
  single: \x; in regular expressions
  single: \\; in regular expressions
 
-Most of the standard escapes supported by Python string literals are also
-accepted by the regular expression parser::
+Most of the :ref:`escape sequences <escape-sequences>` supported by Python
+string literals are also accepted by the regular expression parser::
 
  \a \b \f \n
  \N \r \t \u

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ retained), except that three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the literal. (
 
 .. _escape-sequences:
 
+
+Escape sequences
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 Unless an ``'r'`` or ``'R'`` prefix is present, escape sequences in string and
 bytes literals are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by
 Standard C. The recognized escape sequences are: