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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-12-07 09:30:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-12-07 09:30:11 (GMT) |
| commit | ec46940f3b1e848aba27be74ae65de534773b626 (patch) | |
| tree | f3f8649389d71e50e69736f3e655776409dc9a21 /Doc | |
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RFE #1592899: mention string.maketrans() in docs for str.translate,
remove reference to the old regex module in the former's doc.
(backport from rev. 52951)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libstring.tex | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index a9fb19b..4046246 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ optional argument \var{deletechars} are removed, and the remaining characters have been mapped through the given translation table, which must be a string of length 256. +You can use the \function{maketrans()} helper function in the +\refmodule{string} module to create a translation table. + For Unicode objects, the \method{translate()} method does not accept the optional \var{deletechars} argument. Instead, it returns a copy of the \var{s} where all characters have been mapped diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex index 1828b2e..bc1649f 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ objects. They are not available as string methods. \begin{funcdesc}{maketrans}{from, to} Return a translation table suitable for passing to - \function{translate()} or \function{regex.compile()}, that will map + \function{translate()}, 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. |