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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex index 2e79d43..7a5674e 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex @@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ negative, \code{len(\var{s})} is added. Convert letters to lower case. \end{funcdesc} +\begin{funcdesc}{maketrans}{from, to} +Return a translation table suitable for passing to \code{string.translate} +or \code{regex.compile}, 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. +\end{funcdesc} + \begin{funcdesc}{split}{s} Return a list of the whitespace-delimited words of the string \var{s}. @@ -159,10 +166,11 @@ Remove leading and trailing whitespace from the string Convert lower case letters to upper case and vice versa. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{funcdesc}{translate}{s, table} -Translate the characters from \var{s} using \var{table}, which must be +\begin{funcdesc}{translate}{s, table\optional{, deletechars}} +Delete all characters from \var{s} that are in \var{deletechars} (if present), and +then translate the characters using \var{table}, which must be a 256-character string giving the translation for each character -value, indexed by its ordinal. +value, indexed by its ordinal. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{upper}{s} |