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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index fa8c693..87a6b1a 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -1140,12 +1140,12 @@ new string value and the number of replacements that were performed:: >>> p.subn('colour', 'no colours at all') ('no colours at all', 0) -Empty matches are replaced only when they're not adjacent to a previous match. +Empty matches are replaced only when they're not adjacent to a previous empty match. :: >>> p = re.compile('x*') >>> p.sub('-', 'abxd') - '-a-b-d-' + '-a-b--d-' If *replacement* is a string, any backslash escapes in it are processed. That is, ``\n`` is converted to a single newline character, ``\r`` is converted to a |