Feature Requests item #1592899, was opened at 2006-11-08 20:23 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gbrandl You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1592899&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Documentation Group: Python 2.6 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Ori Avtalion (salty-horse) Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) Summary: "".translate() docs should mention string.maketrans() Initial Comment: The translate() documentation at http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-268 should mention the string.maketrans helper function. maketrans also mentions "regex.compile" - that should probably be "re.compile" (although it's less readable). re.compile should mention maketrans as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2006-12-07 09:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Originator: NO Cleared up both items in rev. 52951, 52952 (2.5). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) Date: 2006-12-04 17:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38376 Originator: NO Aha. The regex documentation says: compile (pattern[, translate]) /.../ The optional argument translate, if present, must be a 256-character string indicating how characters (both of the pattern and of the strings to be matched) are translated before comparing them; the i-th element of the string gives the translation for the character with ASCII code i. This can be used to implement case-insensitive matching; see the casefold data item below. which means that it was indeed useful for regex.compile. afaik, re.compile doesn't support arbitrary mappings, so that reference should be removed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ori Avtalion (salty-horse) Date: 2006-12-04 17:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=854801 Originator: YES >"re.compile should mention maketrans as well" >why? The maketrans doc says: "Return a translation table suitable for passing to translate() or regex.compile()" I don't have any use case for how it's useful to regex.compile. Maybe there is none, and the mention can be removed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) Date: 2006-12-04 09:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38376 Originator: NO "re.compile should mention maketrans as well" why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1592899&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
