Issue #14824: Update Repr.repr_TYPE documentation to use correct name mangling implem...

Patch by Chris Rebert.

diff --git a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
index 568ac6fd066bc56963b7f043c3e67719712d5aae..ee682635bee83d73005be54c9db371736024b526 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/reprlib.rst
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ which format specific object types.
 
    Formatting methods for specific types are implemented as methods with a name
    based on the type name.  In the method name, **TYPE** is replaced by
-   ``string.join(string.split(type(obj).__name__, '_'))``. Dispatch to these
-   methods is handled by :meth:`repr1`. Type-specific methods which need to
-   recursively format a value should call ``self.repr1(subobj, level - 1)``.
+   ``'_'.join(type(obj).__name__.split())``. Dispatch to these methods is
+   handled by :meth:`repr1`. Type-specific methods which need to recursively
+   format a value should call ``self.repr1(subobj, level - 1)``.
 
 
 .. _subclassing-reprs: