Fixes #4255 by adding to the documentation that module names are not regex-escaped

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Palash Chatterjee 2018-10-28 10:42:12 +05:30
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Added missing documentation about the fact that module names passed to filter warnings are not regex-escaped.

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A *warning specification string*, which is composed of contents of the tuple ``(action, message, category, module, lineno)``
as specified in `The Warnings filter <https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#warning-filter>`_ section of
the Python documentation, separated by ``":"``. Optional fields can be omitted.
Module names passed for filtering are not regex-escaped.
For example: