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authorBerker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>2014-09-18 03:05:14 (GMT)
committerBerker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>2014-09-18 03:05:14 (GMT)
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Issue #14824: Update Repr.repr_TYPE documentation to use correct name mangling implementation.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/reprlib.rst6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
index 568ac6f..ee68263 100644
--- a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ which format specific object types.
Formatting methods for specific types are implemented as methods with a name
based on the type name. In the method name, **TYPE** is replaced by
- ``string.join(string.split(type(obj).__name__, '_'))``. Dispatch to these
- methods is handled by :meth:`repr1`. Type-specific methods which need to
- recursively format a value should call ``self.repr1(subobj, level - 1)``.
+ ``'_'.join(type(obj).__name__.split())``. Dispatch to these methods is
+ handled by :meth:`repr1`. Type-specific methods which need to recursively
+ format a value should call ``self.repr1(subobj, level - 1)``.
.. _subclassing-reprs: