From 9eddc25218bf9529b5d7ca2076e49c52899abb09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Schnurr <bschnurr@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 14:35:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [re] Add union fallback overload for escape

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 stdlib/re.pyi | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stdlib/re.pyi b/stdlib/re.pyi
index 42eb751498c0..bbfa2b333c0f 100644
--- a/stdlib/re.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/re.pyi
@@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ def subn(
 def escape(pattern: AnyStr) -> AnyStr: ...
 @overload
 def escape(pattern: ReadableBuffer) -> bytes: ...
+@overload
+def escape(pattern: str | ReadableBuffer) -> str | bytes: ...
 
 def purge() -> None: ...