From cb9bf1ac9c420249f9598931c777b9df83a8d22d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:00:12 +0200 Subject: Issue #12164: Document (in docstring) that str.translate accepts None for the first argument. --- Objects/stringobject.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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) -- cgit v0.12