Andrew M. Kuchling
02a0b3b81a
[bug #692016 ] update description of {m,n} modifier; you can omit the lower bound
2003-03-04 14:12:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
85f3227a74
[bug #696771 ] Remove misleading parenthetical aside
2003-03-04 14:07:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
7af24bd237
Fix example regular expressions that simulate scanf() constructs.
2002-12-03 18:49:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5a173efbf
Fix broken markup.
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Closes SF bug #637807 .
2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d03968c75
Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.
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Closes SF bug #635595 .
2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3adefccdcb
Use personal e-mail address
2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
e7c38d48ff
fixed the mail address in the documentation, too...
2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
2c0d3224fc
tightened up the definition of \b and \B some more based upon discussion
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after the last checkin.
2002-09-07 18:48:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
2c519981fb
update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word.
2002-09-06 14:38:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
ffefb1df56
Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.
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Closes SF bug #597177 .
2002-08-20 13:57:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b11bdd0ed
SF patch #581414 : info reader bug
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The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it. This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
53540ab071
Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.
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Closes SF bug #572169 .
2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
81bdc93d2f
Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226 .
2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2854c478be
Remove mention of 'pre' module
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(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
57f8e06e4f
Document the finditer() function and method.
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This closes SF bug #520904 .
Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923 .
2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8b663806b
Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert.
2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0c82a35f
Fix stupid typo in example.
2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
f275803fe9
Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions.
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Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708 .
2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
9479c958c5
Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session.
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Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
a8e1d81bdc
add simple example of avoiding backtracking
2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6b2aa6c75
Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.
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Reported by Steve Alexander.
2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
7bc6f7ac7b
Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.
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LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed0a71911c
Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs.
2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cec7fab1d
New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro,
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with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825 .
2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1f774b062e
Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author
2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
7533587d43
Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
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and NEWS. Bugfix candidate? That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>: /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Tim Peters
9835206268
A regexp example was rendered as
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foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it? If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
foo$
is also wrong.
2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
46ccd1dae5
Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e74f8de385
Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
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re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
c547b46c06
Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
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and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600 .
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bdb57e15
Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that
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matched; reported by Paul Moore.
Wrapped several long lines.
2001-07-12 14:13:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
907e76b620
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
895aa9da4c
Suggestion from Keith Briggs: refer to RE objects consistently instead of
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introducing a new term ("regex") without defining it.
2001-04-18 17:26:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
e20bd19f86
Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.
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These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the
source.
2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
75afc0b914
Document the .lastindex and .lastgroup attributes of MatchObject
2000-10-18 23:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c4f554b78
Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-10-10 22:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
062ea2e70b
Made a number of revisions suggested by Fredrik Lundh.
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Revised the first paragraph so it doesn't sound like it was written
when 7-bit strings were assumed; note that Unicode strings can be used.
2000-10-06 19:59:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9351dd2084
Document the lookbehind assertions (closing bug#115119)
2000-10-05 15:22:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
7a90db6131
Document expand() method of MatchObjects
2000-10-05 12:35:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
e53793bf4c
Updates from Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> about Unicode-related
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behavior.
2000-09-25 17:52:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
77a6c9ece5
Minor markup nits around use of \optional.
2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
af5b76677f
Changed obsolete e-mail alias
2000-06-27 03:16:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
356d0ceb7e
Use \citetitle in one place.
1999-11-09 20:10:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d0971e33e
For "Matching vs. Searching", remove comment that the section is
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incomplete; I don't remember what else I thought I was going to put
in, but it looks o.k. to me know.
1999-06-29 21:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
dda199b261
Moved \versionadded to end of description sections.
1999-02-02 19:01:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7998f650a
Revised comments on null bytes in pattern string.
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Removed "New" from module synopsis.
1999-01-19 20:00:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd058539a8
Adjust a few niggles that affected the HTML conversion (a couple of
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"^"s were being dropped in the context of [^...]).
1998-12-28 19:03:24 +00:00