Add docstrings for regular expression objects and methods.

This commit is contained in:
Raymond Hettinger 2004-09-24 04:31:19 +00:00
parent 596ba4d89e
commit 9447874131
1 changed files with 51 additions and 8 deletions

View File

@ -2672,15 +2672,58 @@ pattern_deepcopy(PatternObject* self, PyObject* args)
#endif
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_match_doc,
"match(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> match object or None.\n\
Matches zero or more characters at the beginning of the string");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_search_doc,
"search(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> match object or None.\n\
Scan through string looking for a match, and return a corresponding\n\
MatchObject instance. Return None if no position in the string matches.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_split_doc,
"split(string[, maxsplit = 0]) --> list.\n\
Split string by the occurrences of pattern.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_findall_doc,
"findall(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> list.\n\
Return a list of all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_finditer_doc,
"finditer(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> iterator.\n\
Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches for the \n\
RE pattern in string. For each match, the iterator returns a\n\
match object.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_sub_doc,
"sub(repl, string[, count = 0]) --> newstring\n\
Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping\n\
occurrences of pattern in string by the replacement repl.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_subn_doc,
"subn(repl, string[, count = 0]) --> (newstring, number of subs)\n\
Return the tuple (new_string, number_of_subs_made) found by replacing\n\
the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of pattern with the\n\
replacement repl.");
PyDoc_STRVAR(pattern_doc, "Compiled regular expression objects");
static PyMethodDef pattern_methods[] = {
{"match", (PyCFunction) pattern_match, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"search", (PyCFunction) pattern_search, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"sub", (PyCFunction) pattern_sub, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"subn", (PyCFunction) pattern_subn, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"split", (PyCFunction) pattern_split, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"findall", (PyCFunction) pattern_findall, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{"match", (PyCFunction) pattern_match, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_match_doc},
{"search", (PyCFunction) pattern_search, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_search_doc},
{"sub", (PyCFunction) pattern_sub, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_sub_doc},
{"subn", (PyCFunction) pattern_subn, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_subn_doc},
{"split", (PyCFunction) pattern_split, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_split_doc},
{"findall", (PyCFunction) pattern_findall, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
pattern_findall_doc},
#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x02020000
{"finditer", (PyCFunction) pattern_finditer, METH_VARARGS},
{"finditer", (PyCFunction) pattern_finditer, METH_VARARGS,
pattern_finditer_doc},
#endif
{"scanner", (PyCFunction) pattern_scanner, METH_VARARGS},
{"__copy__", (PyCFunction) pattern_copy, METH_VARARGS},
@ -2741,7 +2784,7 @@ statichere PyTypeObject Pattern_Type = {
0, /* tp_setattro */
0, /* tp_as_buffer */
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS, /* tp_flags */
0, /* tp_doc */
pattern_doc, /* tp_doc */
0, /* tp_traverse */
0, /* tp_clear */
0, /* tp_richcompare */