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Eric S. Raymond 46ccd1dae5 Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
<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.
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
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
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.
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
"^"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.
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.
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.
(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
Simplify the patterns in the examples for re.split
1998-08-14 14:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 295da24eaf New section header style.
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
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
^ 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
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
release bug.

Document groups() changed behaviour (now always returns tuple).
1998-01-12 18:58:53 +00:00