[Python-checkins] cpython (3.3): Fix example in backreference description. Found by Alexander Heger on docs at .

georg.brandl python-checkins at python.org
Sun Oct 6 12:57:42 CEST 2013


http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bcc837f8b640
changeset:   86070:bcc837f8b640
branch:      3.3
parent:      86068:ef0b7d9a1bbf
user:        Georg Brandl <georg at python.org>
date:        Sun Oct 06 12:58:20 2013 +0200
summary:
  Fix example in backreference description.  Found by Alexander Heger on docs at .

files:
  Doc/library/re.rst |  2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
 ``\number``
    Matches the contents of the group of the same number.  Groups are numbered
    starting from 1.  For example, ``(.+) \1`` matches ``'the the'`` or ``'55 55'``,
-   but not ``'the end'`` (note the space after the group).  This special sequence
+   but not ``'thethe'`` (note the space after the group).  This special sequence
    can only be used to match one of the first 99 groups.  If the first digit of
    *number* is 0, or *number* is 3 octal digits long, it will not be interpreted as
    a group match, but as the character with octal value *number*. Inside the

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