[ python-Feature Requests-1592899 ] "".translate() docs should mention string.maketrans()

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Feature Requests item #1592899, was opened at 2006-11-08 21:23
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.6
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)
Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: "".translate() docs should mention string.maketrans()

Initial Comment:
The translate() documentation at
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-268
should mention the string.maketrans helper function.

maketrans also mentions "regex.compile" - that should
probably be "re.compile" (although it's less readable).

re.compile should mention maketrans as well.

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>Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Date: 2006-12-04 18:42

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Aha.  The regex documentation says:

compile (pattern[, translate]) /.../ The optional argument translate, if
present, must be a 256-character string indicating how characters (both of
the pattern and of the strings to be matched) are translated before
comparing them; the i-th element of the string gives the translation for
the character with ASCII code i. This can be used to implement
case-insensitive matching; see the casefold data item below.

which means that it was indeed useful for regex.compile.  afaik,
re.compile doesn't support arbitrary mappings, so that reference should be
removed.

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Comment By: Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)
Date: 2006-12-04 18:08

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>"re.compile should mention maketrans as well"
>why?

The maketrans doc says:
"Return a translation table suitable for passing to translate() or
regex.compile()"

I don't have any use case for how it's useful to regex.compile. Maybe
there is none, and the mention can be removed.

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Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Date: 2006-12-04 10:20

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"re.compile should mention maketrans as well"

why?

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