Bugs item #1631394, was opened at 2007-01-09 12:12
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>Category: Regular Expressions
>Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tom Lynn (tlynn)
>Assigned to: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Summary: sre module has misleading docs
Initial Comment:
>>> help(sre)
...
"$" Matches the end of the string.
...
\Z Matches only at the end of the string.
...
M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
"$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
The docs for "$" are misleading - it actually matches in newline-specific ways
which the module's built-in docs don't hint at. The MULTILINE docs don't
clarify this.
I'd also like to see "from sre import __doc__" added to the end of re.py; lack
of "help(re)" is a bigger problem than having slightly wrong auto-generated
docs for the re module itself.
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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-03-06 21:55
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The re.__doc__ problem is gone; the problem that the $ documentation
doesn't give a complete specification persists.
Fredrik, do you have an opinion on this? If not, please unassign.
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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-06 19:34
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Doesn't seem so. Note that the sre.__doc__ problem doesn't exist in 2.5
anymore since re is now what sre was before.
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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-01-09 19:22
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Did you mean to include a patch?
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