From 2f4af2d99cffed6ba81e4b8fd886de6ae8625a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:20:01 -0600 Subject: GH-99183: Document behavior of count() for empty substrings (GH-99339) --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 6701d79..332974e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1617,6 +1617,9 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). range [*start*, *end*]. Optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in slice notation. + If *sub* is empty, returns the number of empty strings between characters + which is the length of the string plus one. + .. method:: str.encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict") @@ -2698,6 +2701,9 @@ arbitrary binary data. The subsequence to search for may be any :term:`bytes-like object` or an integer in the range 0 to 255. + If *sub* is empty, returns the number of empty slices between characters + which is the length of the bytes object plus one. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence. -- cgit v0.12