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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-09-21 19:26:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-09-21 19:26:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 5fb2631ff9ca398aea45e001b1b97e9208ca2e9b (patch) | |
| tree | cddc9feffa58dfb1aa76a1b6899154f2d22fb236 /Doc/lib | |
| parent | 4ecd85aad7a3ae1619c76be302540935460b4e12 (diff) | |
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Explicitly document the fact that the search method returns a MatchObject.
(Reported by Gary Herron.)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libre.tex | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex index c65898c..ca1d88b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex @@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ attributes: \begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{search}{string\optional{, pos}\optional{, endpos}} Scan through \var{string} looking for a location where this regular - expression produces a match. Return \code{None} if no + expression produces a match, and return a + corresponding \class{MatchObject} instance. Return \code{None} if no position in the string matches the pattern; note that this is different from finding a zero-length match at some point in the string. |