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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-07 14:00:51 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-07 14:00:51 (GMT) |
commit | 77a6c9ece58ce5ffc6a28c79721b27095ccd21b7 (patch) | |
tree | 4bc7f81eeae0b4eb65b106ff6b1c7cc690205f38 /Doc | |
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Minor markup nits around use of \optional.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex index b7c88e3..db11703 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ leftmost such \character{\#} through the end of the line are ignored. \var{string}, use \method{search()} instead. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{funcdesc}{split}{pattern, string, \optional{, maxsplit\code{ = 0}}} +\begin{funcdesc}{split}{pattern, string\optional{, maxsplit\code{ = 0}}} Split \var{string} by the occurrences of \var{pattern}. If capturing parentheses are used in \var{pattern}, then the text of all groups in the pattern are also returned as part of the resulting list. @@ -510,8 +510,8 @@ Perform the same operation as \function{sub()}, but return a tuple Compiled regular expression objects support the following methods and attributes: -\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{search}{string\optional{, pos}\optional{, - endpos}} +\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{search}{string\optional{, pos\optional{, + endpos}}} Scan through \var{string} looking for a location where this regular expression produces a match, and return a corresponding \class{MatchObject} instance. Return \code{None} if no @@ -522,8 +522,8 @@ attributes: meaning as for the \method{match()} method. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{match}{string\optional{, pos}\optional{, - endpos}} +\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{match}{string\optional{, pos\optional{, + endpos}}} If zero or more characters at the beginning of \var{string} match this regular expression, return a corresponding \class{MatchObject} instance. Return \code{None} if the string does not @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ attributes: searched for a match. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{split}{string, \optional{, +\begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{split}{string\optional{, maxsplit\code{ = 0}}} Identical to the \function{split()} function, using the compiled pattern. \end{methoddesc} @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ The pattern string from which the regex object was compiled. \class{MatchObject} instances support the following methods and attributes: -\begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{group}{\optional{group1, group2, ...}} +\begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{group}{\optional{group1, \moreargs}} Returns one or more subgroups of the match. If there is a single argument, the result is a single string; if there are multiple arguments, the result is a tuple with one item per argument. @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ the string matching the the corresponding parenthesized group. If a group number is negative or larger than the number of groups defined in the pattern, an \exception{IndexError} exception is raised. If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that did not match, -the corresponding result is \code{None}. If a group is contained in a +the corresponding result is \code{-1}. If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple times, the last match is returned. @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ used for groups that did not participate in the match; it defaults to Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by \var{group}; \var{group} defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched substring). -Return \code{None} if \var{group} exists but +Return \code{-1} if \var{group} exists but did not contribute to the match. For a match object \var{m}, and a group \var{g} that did contribute to the match, the substring matched by group \var{g} (equivalent to @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ an \exception{IndexError} exception. For \class{MatchObject} \var{m}, return the 2-tuple \code{(\var{m}.start(\var{group}), \var{m}.end(\var{group}))}. Note that if \var{group} did not contribute to the match, this is -\code{(None, None)}. Again, \var{group} defaults to zero. +\code{(-1, -1)}. Again, \var{group} defaults to zero. \end{methoddesc} \begin{memberdesc}[MatchObject]{pos} |