From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 15:35:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: docstring tweaks: count counts non-overlapping substrings, not
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~597
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=763b50f9d96b0176003fdad41b37cf7fb11c1dda;p=python

docstring tweaks: count counts non-overlapping substrings, not
total number of occurences
---

diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 536caeff97..f3104ee66c 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -2159,9 +2159,9 @@ string_capitalize(PyStringObject *self)
 PyDoc_STRVAR(count__doc__,
 "S.count(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int\n\
 \n\
-Return the number of occurrences of substring sub in string\n\
-S[start:end].  Optional arguments start and end are\n\
-interpreted as in slice notation.");
+Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in\n\
+string S[start:end].  Optional arguments start and end are interpreted\n\
+as in slice notation.");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_count(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index a3af7f6a85..7d11f7de34 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -5078,8 +5078,8 @@ onError:
 PyDoc_STRVAR(count__doc__,
 "S.count(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int\n\
 \n\
-Return the number of occurrences of substring sub in Unicode string\n\
-S[start:end].  Optional arguments start and end are\n\
+Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in\n\
+Unicode string S[start:end].  Optional arguments start and end are\n\
 interpreted as in slice notation.");
 
 static PyObject *