[docs] Bug in "re.sub" docs

Sandro Tosi sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 20:32:45 CET 2011


Hi Thomas,
thanks for your email.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 22:28, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:
> http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.sub
>
> a) flags param seems to be not there in the implementation

could you please give us more details? are you talking about a
specific method (or a set of them)? If so, what is it?

> b) "That is, \n is converted to a single newline character, \r is
> converted to a linefeed, and so forth."
>
> Obviously, \r is NOT linefeed, but carriage return.

You're right about that (I'll prepare a patch once a) is clear).

Cheers.
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