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[3.6] bpo-31672: Fix string.Template accidentally matched non-ASCII identifiers (GH-3872)#3982

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[3.6] bpo-31672: Fix string.Template accidentally matched non-ASCII identifiers (GH-3872)#3982
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Pattern [a-z] with IGNORECASE flag can match to some non-ASCII characters.

Straightforward solution for this is using IGNORECASE | ASCII flag.
But users may subclass Template and override only idpattern. So we want to
avoid changing Template.flags.

So this commit uses local flag -i for idpattern and change [a-z] to [a-zA-Z]..
(cherry picked from commit b22273e)

https://bugs.python.org/issue31672

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Pattern `[a-z]` with `IGNORECASE` flag can match to some non-ASCII characters.

Straightforward solution for this is using `IGNORECASE | ASCII` flag.
But users may subclass `Template` and override only `idpattern`. So we want to
avoid changing `Template.flags`.

So this commit uses local flag `-i` for `idpattern` and change `[a-z]` to `[a-zA-Z]`..
(cherry picked from commit b22273e)
Comment thread Doc/library/string.rst Outdated

While *flags* is kept to ``re.IGNORECASE`` for backward compatibility,
you can override it to ``0`` or ``re.IGNORECASE | re.ASCII`` when
subclassing. It's simple way to avoid unexpected match like above example.

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This last sentence ("It's...") has some grammatical problems, and I don't think it's actually necessary. Can you remove it please?

@methane methane merged commit 7060380 into python:3.6 Oct 14, 2017
@methane methane deleted the backport-b22273e-3.6 branch October 14, 2017 05:22
methane added a commit to methane/cpython that referenced this pull request Oct 14, 2017
This sentence is removed while backporting to 3.6 branch.
See python#3982 (comment)
methane added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 14, 2017
This sentence is removed while backporting to 3.6 branch.
See #3982 (comment)
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