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Correct regex for metadata 'name' format
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Update regex from PEP 508 as well
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Merge branch 'main' into update-core-metadata-name-regex
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion source/specifications/dependency-specifiers.rst
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Expand Up @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ document we limit the acceptable values for identifiers to that regex. A full
redefinition of name may take place in a future metadata PEP. The regex (run
with re.IGNORECASE) is::

^([A-Z0-9]|[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9._-]*[A-Z0-9])$
^([A-Z0-9]|[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9._-]*[A-Z0-9])\Z

.. _dependency-specifiers-extras:

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion source/specifications/name-normalization.rst
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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ underscore and hyphen. It must start and end with a letter or number.
This means that valid project names are limited to those which match the
following regex (run with :py:data:`re.IGNORECASE`)::

^([A-Z0-9]|[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9._-]*[A-Z0-9])$
^([A-Z0-9]|[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9._-]*[A-Z0-9])\Z


.. _name-normalization:
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