diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index a23e45f2eb52f9..4245c2417fee67 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ form.
    This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may
    have regular expression metacharacters in it.  For example::
 
-      >>> print(re.escape('python.exe'))
-      python\.exe
+      >>> print(re.escape('http://www.python.org'))
+      http://www\.python\.org
 
       >>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:"
       >>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars))
@@ -949,7 +949,9 @@ form.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.7
       Only characters that can have special meaning in a regular expression
-      are escaped.
+      are escaped. As a result, ``'!'``, ``'"'``, ``'%'``, ``"'"``, ``','``,
+      ``'/'``, ``':'``, ``';'``, ``'<'``, ``'='``, ``'>'``, ``'@'``, and
+      ``"`"`` are no longer escaped.
 
 
 .. function:: purge()
diff --git a/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv b/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
index 35dfce2c5c80e7..36d93a45b0209e 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
+++ b/Doc/tools/susp-ignored.csv
@@ -354,3 +354,4 @@ whatsnew/3.7,,::,error::BytesWarning
 whatsnew/changelog,,::,error::BytesWarning
 whatsnew/changelog,,::,default::BytesWarning
 whatsnew/changelog,,::,default::DeprecationWarning
+library/re,,`,"`"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0bde8c868c9ec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-09-27-23-37-41.bpo-38294.go_jFf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add list of no-longer-escaped chars to re.escape documentation
\ No newline at end of file