diff Objects/stringobject.c @ 70947:60b3a5615c4e 2.7

Issue #12164: Document (in docstring) that str.translate accepts None for the first argument.
author Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
date Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:00:12 +0200
parents 3ceeccbc2c3b
children e266415cf42c
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--- a/Objects/stringobject.c	Sat Jun 25 09:55:10 2011 +0200
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c	Sat Jun 25 11:00:12 2011 +0200
@@ -2173,7 +2173,9 @@
 Return a copy of the string S, where all characters occurring\n\
 in the optional argument deletechars are removed, and the\n\
 remaining characters have been mapped through the given\n\
-translation table, which must be a string of length 256.");
+translation table, which must be a string of length 256 or None.\n\
+If the table argument is None, no translation is applied and\n\
+the operation simply removes the characters in deletechars.");
 
 static PyObject *
 string_translate(PyStringObject *self, PyObject *args)