[1.11.x] Fixed #27945 -- Clarified that RegexValidator searches with the regex.

Backport of 325db2a8c3453a56db5e0df0eed37476eb67802d from master

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index 11a3d8e69f..ea18685fdb 100644
--- a/django/core/validators.py
+++ b/django/core/validators.py
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ class RegexValidator(object):
 
     def __call__(self, value):
         """
-        Validates that the input matches the regular expression
-        if inverse_match is False, otherwise raises ValidationError.
+        Validate that the input contains a match for the regular expression
+        if inverse_match is False, otherwise raise ValidationError.
         """
         if not (self.inverse_match is not bool(self.regex.search(
                 force_text(value)))):