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Title: Regular expression documentation patch
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 2.7
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: rhettinger Nosy List: Retro, docs@python, ezio.melotti, python-dev, rhettinger
Priority: low Keywords: patch

Created on 2011-04-26 22:06 by Retro, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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Messages (6)
msg134506 - (view) Author: Boštjan Mejak (Retro) Date: 2011-04-26 22:06
I have read and fixed the regular expression documentation and made a patch. Ezio, please review it and apply it. Thanks.
msg134513 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-04-26 22:32
The section heads should remain in title case.

The colon in the octal escape section should remain, but the "If" following it should be lower cased.

"Phonebook" should remain a single word.

"vs" is fine without the period in a section head.

It would be better to replace all of the "e.g." and "i.e" with "for example" and "such as".
msg134514 - (view) Author: Boštjan Mejak (Retro) Date: 2011-04-26 22:38
Raymond, what about the title "search() vs. match()"? There is a dot there! Please add the dot where I added it. Or remove it here as well. Also, "Checking For a Pair" is "Checking for a Pair". The word "for" must be lowercase.
msg134518 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-04-26 22:57
I'll do these fix-ups but wish you would shift your focus to making substantive changes.  You're wasting developer time.
msg145966 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2011-10-19 21:11
New changeset 068d89194ffd by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.2':
Issue 11931: Minor punctuation/grammar/wording fixups to the regex docs
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/068d89194ffd
msg145967 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-10-19 21:11
Applied many of these changes to 3.2 and 3.3.
If someone is interested, feel free to backport them to 2.7.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:16adminsetgithub: 56140
2011-10-19 21:11:56rhettingersetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
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versions: - Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
2011-10-19 21:11:00python-devsetnosy: + python-dev
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2011-04-26 22:57:13rhettingersetmessages: + msg134518
2011-04-26 22:53:36rhettingersetpriority: normal -> low
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2011-04-26 22:38:06Retrosetmessages: + msg134514
2011-04-26 22:32:41rhettingersetnosy: + rhettinger
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2011-04-26 22:06:25Retrocreate