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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-06-11 16:03:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-06-11 16:03:30 (GMT) |
| commit | a3eebe60dc7ad854020ae839270f35b137c2893d (patch) | |
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Add warning about use of lowercase/uppercase with maketrans().
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex index 3939229..7d6f4bd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex @@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ Return a translation table suitable for passing to \function{translate()} or \function{regex.compile()}, that will map each character in \var{from} into the character at the same position in \var{to}; \var{from} and \var{to} must have the same length. + +\strong{Warning:} don't use strings derived from \code{lowercase} and +\code{uppercase} as arguments; in some locales, these don't have the +same length. For case conversions, always use \function{lower()} and +\function{upper()}. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{split}{s\optional{, sep\optional{, maxsplit}}} |