Documentation

In https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html (also 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14) the flags parameter is defined in the documentation for re.compile(), but not for any other method that takes a flags parameter (search, match, fullmatch, split, findall, finditer, sub, subn).

I expected the documentation for each of those methods to at least specify the type of the flags parameter (presumably re.RegexFlag), with a link to the detailed description under the “Module Contents” section.

Linked PRs

• gh-119960: Add information about regex flags #119978
• [3.13] gh-119960: Add information about regex flags in re module functions (GH-119978) #120730
• [3.12] gh-119960: Add information about regex flags in re module functions (GH-119978) #120908