From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:51:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #5352: str.count() counts non-overlapping instances.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1959
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#5352: str.count() counts non-overlapping instances.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 09ba2538fa..fe78be7842 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -826,9 +826,9 @@ string functions based on regular expressions.
 
 .. method:: str.count(sub[, start[, end]])
 
-   Return the number of occurrences of substring *sub* in the range [*start*,
-   *end*].  Optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in slice
-   notation.
+   Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring *sub* in the
+   range [*start*, *end*].  Optional arguments *start* and *end* are
+   interpreted as in slice notation.
 
 
 .. method:: str.decode([encoding[, errors]])