From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:30:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: RFE #1592899: mention string.maketrans() in docs for str.translate,
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.1c1~225
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec46940f3b1e848aba27be74ae65de534773b626;p=python

RFE #1592899: mention string.maketrans() in docs for str.translate,
remove reference to the old regex module in the former's doc.
 (backport from rev. 52951)
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index a9fb19ba3d..40462463fa 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ optional argument \var{deletechars} are removed, and the remaining
 characters have been mapped through the given translation table, which
 must be a string of length 256.
 
+You can use the \function{maketrans()} helper function in the
+\refmodule{string} module to create a translation table.
+
 For Unicode objects, the \method{translate()} method does not
 accept the optional \var{deletechars} argument.  Instead, it
 returns a copy of the \var{s} where all characters have been mapped
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 1828b2e1cd..bc1649fdbf 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ objects.  They are not available as string methods.
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{maketrans}{from, to}
   Return a translation table suitable for passing to
-  \function{translate()} or \function{regex.compile()}, that will map
+  \function{translate()}, that will map
   each character in \var{from} into the character at the same position
   in \var{to}; \var{from} and \var{to} must have the same length.