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-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 693f773..b3b79b8 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -2173,7 +2173,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(translate__doc__,
Return a copy of the string S, where all characters occurring\n\
in the optional argument deletechars are removed, and the\n\
remaining characters have been mapped through the given\n\
-translation table, which must be a string of length 256.");
+translation table, which must be a string of length 256 or None.\n\
+If the table argument is None, no translation is applied and\n\
+the operation simply removes the characters in deletechars.");
static PyObject *
string_translate(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)