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
Fred Drake
768ac6b804
Start of text that describes differences between match and search.
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Strengthen pointers to the search() function and method.
1998-12-22 18:19:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e270f0e03
Nits to support conversions.
1998-11-30 22:58:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
c1cea208bc
Added URL to HOWTO page, with reference to Regex HOWTO.
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Corrected error: {,5} is not equivalent to {0,5}.
1998-10-28 15:44:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7d447aabbf
Moved search and match around so that search is documented first.
1998-10-13 16:03:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fb2631ff9
Explicitly document the fact that the search method returns a MatchObject.
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(Reported by Gary Herron.)
1998-09-21 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
10a7985565
re.findall(): Mark as added in 1.5.2.
1998-09-18 17:11:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d16d4981d1
Markup nits.
1998-09-10 20:21:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d22e25002a
Clarify wording in the description of re.split
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Simplify the patterns in the examples for re.split
1998-08-14 14:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
295da24eaf
New section header style.
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Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
66da9d69fc
re is standard, not built-in.
1998-08-07 18:57:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
b91e934cf1
Adjusted to use the new module synopsis support macros.
1998-07-23 17:59:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6c373f758f
Document new default arg to groups() and new functions/methods
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groupdict() and findall().
1998-06-29 22:48:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
65b7863efc
Fix unclear wording pointed out by Tim Peters, about the interaction between
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^ and the pos argument to re.match().
Also, fixed a typo in libregex.tex.
1998-06-22 15:02:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
42de185a77
Added \label to subsections which didn't have one, since this module has
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subsections listed in the documentation index sidebar. (Why?)
1998-04-20 16:28:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
253328104f
Many markup changes (to \regexp, mostly)
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Clarified text on 8-bit cleanness, complemented sets like [^5], and {m,n}
qualifier.
1998-04-09 14:56:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a0351cf85
Remove all uses of \sectcode; we can now use logical markup everywhere.
1998-04-04 07:23:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
82143348aa
Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macro.
1998-04-04 06:28:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
791468f731
Some clarifications of out-of-range group indexes/names
1998-04-03 20:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
76547c5631
Minor nits.
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Moved IGNORECASE & friends to "top level" definitions following compile(),
since there is no other case of nesting in the manual.
Use {memberdesc} and {methoddesc} as appropriate.
1998-04-03 05:59:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e9625e86b8
AMK's version from the latest pypcre distribution. This clarifies a
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few things and adds docs for what happens to escapes in replacement
strings.
1998-04-02 01:32:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
013ad9869e
Cleaned up some remaining markup nits.
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Andrew: In description of (?iLmsx), you say it matches the empty string and
sets the corresponding flag. Is this correct? Or does it only set the flag?
1998-03-08 07:38:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
20e01966f5
Logical markup.
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Several uses of "\^" could be simplified; this fixes part of the info
generation process.
1998-02-19 15:09:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
2705e801d9
For the lists which describe the regular expression syntax, increase the
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width available so we don't run into the left page margin.
1998-02-16 21:21:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1947991c2f
Remove all \bcode / \ecode cruft; this is no longer needed. See previous
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checkin of myformat.sty.
Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.
Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.
1998-02-13 06:58:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f5370f4019
Turn the space in [\^ ...] into a hard space: [\^\ ...].
1998-02-11 22:52:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
46503922a0
Various updates to the effect that the group argument is always optional.
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Also documented that groups() now always returns a tuple.
1998-01-19 23:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
023f87fbf8
Lots of minor markup nits, all consistency related.
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Consistently use trailing "()" on function / method names.
Wrapped some long lines.
1998-01-12 19:16:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97546399c7
Document maxsplit arg for split(), with incompatibility note about 1.5
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release bug.
Document groups() changed behaviour (now always returns tuple).
1998-01-12 18:58:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b2c45a8197
Sigh. Apply a similar patch to the *other* occurrence of [^...].
1998-01-12 05:49:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
c4586387f6
In description of \D, revise markup so that the caret shows up in the HTML
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version as well as the dvi form. Without the fix, it showed up as an extra
zero character.
Bug reported by Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>.
1998-01-06 15:46:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
eb0f066fb8
Correct small nits reported by Rob Hooft.
1997-12-30 20:38:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e66e9c5562
Remove more commented-out text that is no longer needed.
1997-12-29 21:43:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
29d3b9368c
Remove the commented-out warning at the top. It shouldn't be there
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for the 1.5 release version of the file.
1997-12-29 21:42:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
78f8e98232
Lots of minor nits that allow this file to get processed without failures by
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the info generation phases. Most of the errors had occurred in the makeinfo
step.
Commented out the warning at the top; this should still really be removed
before 1.5, but that's not my call. It generated problems for the info
conversion as well.
1997-12-29 21:39:39 +00:00