bpo-35584: Clarify role of caret in a class class (GH-11946)
https://bugs.python.org/issue35584
diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index b09f748..d385d99 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@
You can match the characters not listed within the class by :dfn:`complementing`
the set. This is indicated by including a ``'^'`` as the first character of the
-class; ``'^'`` outside a character class will simply match the ``'^'``
-character. For example, ``[^5]`` will match any character except ``'5'``.
+class. For example, ``[^5]`` will match any character except ``'5'``. If the
+caret appears elsewhere in a character class, it does not have special meaning.
+For example: ``[5^]`` will match either a ``'5'`` or a ``'^'``.
Perhaps the most important metacharacter is the backslash, ``\``. As in Python
string literals, the backslash can be followed by various characters to signal