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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2009-04-12 15:51:51 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2009-04-12 15:51:51 (GMT)
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Add bytes/bytearray.maketrans() to mirror str.maketrans(), and deprecate
string.maketrans() which actually works on bytes. (Also closes #5675.)
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@@ -548,13 +548,9 @@ rule:
delimiter), and it should appear last in the regular expression.
-String functions
+Helper functions
----------------
-The following functions are available to operate on string objects.
-They are not available as string methods.
-
-
.. function:: capwords(s)
Split the argument into words using :func:`split`, capitalize each word using
@@ -568,3 +564,6 @@ They are not available as string methods.
Return a translation table suitable for passing to :meth:`bytes.translate`,
that will map each character in *from* into the character at the same
position in *to*; *from* and *to* must have the same length.
+
+ .. deprecated:: 3.1
+ Use the :meth:`bytes.maketrans` static method instead.