From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:09:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Ah whoops, we didn't turn string into a package (thanks Neal!)
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a3~131
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08b07def43e2475657bd66c544becb75cae6b4de;p=python

Ah whoops, we didn't turn string into a package (thanks Neal!)
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 2824aeb60a..ff3f3be97c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -4,22 +4,11 @@
 \declaremodule{standard}{string}
 \modulesynopsis{Common string operations.}
 
-The \module{string} package contains a number of useful constants and classes,
+The \module{string} module contains a number of useful constants and classes,
 as well as some deprecated legacy functions that are also available as methods
 on strings.  See the module \refmodule{re}\refstmodindex{re} for string
 functions based on regular expressions.
 
-In general, all of these objects are exposed directly in the \module{string}
-package so users need only import the \module{string} package to begin using
-these constants, classes, and functions.
-
-\begin{notice}
-Starting with Python 2.4, the traditional \module{string} module was turned
-into a package, however backward compatibility with existing code has been
-retained.  Code using the \module{string} module that worked prior to Python
-2.4 should continue to work unchanged.
-\end{notice}
-
 \subsection{String constants}
 
 The constants defined in this module are: