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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-02-02 03:01:10 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-02-02 03:01:10 (GMT)
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Clarify that capwords() removes leading/trailing whitespace.
Remove references to regsub, which is obsolescent.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index cc3f34f..1911801 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -96,9 +96,7 @@ Capitalize the first character of the argument.
Split the argument into words using \code{split}, capitalize each word
using \code{capitalize}, and join the capitalized words using
\code{join}. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by
-a single space. (See also \code{regsub.capwords()} for a version
-that doesn't change the delimiters, and lets you specify a word
-separator.)
+a single space, and removes leading and trailing whitespace.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s\, tabsize}
@@ -161,8 +159,6 @@ string. The optional third argument \var{maxsplit} defaults to 0. If
it is nonzero, at most \var{maxsplit} number of splits occur, and the
remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list
(thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1} elements).
-(See also \code{regsub.split()} for a version that allows specifying a
-regular expression as the separator.)
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{splitfields}{s\optional{\, sep\optional{\, maxsplit}}}