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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2013-11-25 20:47:01 (GMT)
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2013-11-25 20:47:01 (GMT)
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#19778: fix a couple of re reprs in the documentation.
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index 8a089e4..fbe763b 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ performing string substitutions. ::
>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('ab*')
- >>> p #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
- <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
+ >>> p
+ re.compile('ab*')
:func:`re.compile` also accepts an optional *flags* argument, used to enable
various special features and syntax variations. We'll go over the available
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ Python interpreter, import the :mod:`re` module, and compile a RE::
>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('[a-z]+')
- >>> p #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
- <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x...>
+ >>> p
+ re.compile('[a-z]+')
Now, you can try matching various strings against the RE ``[a-z]+``. An empty
string shouldn't match at all, since ``+`` means 'one or more repetitions'.