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  r79430 | brian.curtin | 2010-03-25 18:48:54 -0500 (Thu, 25 Mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix #6538. Markup RegexObject and MatchObject as classes. Patch by Ryan Arana.
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@ -705,8 +705,9 @@ form.
Regular Expression Objects
--------------------------
Compiled regular expression objects support the following methods and
attributes:
.. class:: RegexObject
The :class:`RegexObject` class supports the following methods and attributes:
.. method:: RegexObject.match(string[, pos[, endpos]])
@ -751,7 +752,7 @@ attributes:
:meth:`~RegexObject.match` method.
.. method:: RegexObject.split(string, maxsplit=0)
.. method:: RegexObject.split(string[, maxsplit=0])
Identical to the :func:`split` function, using the compiled pattern.
@ -766,12 +767,12 @@ attributes:
Identical to the :func:`finditer` function, using the compiled pattern.
.. method:: RegexObject.sub(repl, string, count=0)
.. method:: RegexObject.sub(repl, string[, count=0])
Identical to the :func:`sub` function, using the compiled pattern.
.. method:: RegexObject.subn(repl, string, count=0)
.. method:: RegexObject.subn(repl, string[, count=0])
Identical to the :func:`subn` function, using the compiled pattern.
@ -804,7 +805,9 @@ attributes:
Match Objects
-------------
Match objects always have a boolean value of :const:`True`, so that you can test
.. class:: MatchObject
Match Objects always have a boolean value of :const:`True`, so that you can test
whether e.g. :func:`match` resulted in a match with a simple if statement. They
support the following methods and attributes:
@ -868,12 +871,12 @@ support the following methods and attributes:
>>> m.group(1) # Returns only the last match.
'c3'
.. method:: MatchObject.groups(default=None)
Return a tuple containing all the subgroups of the match, from 1 up to however
many groups are in the pattern. The *default* argument is used for groups that
did not participate in the match; it defaults to ``None``.
did not participate in the match; it defaults to ``None``. (Incompatibility
note: in the original Python 1.5 release, if the tuple was one element long, a
string would be returned instead. In later versions (from 1.5.1 on), a
singleton tuple is returned in such cases.)
For example:
@ -892,7 +895,7 @@ support the following methods and attributes:
('24', '0')
.. method:: MatchObject.groupdict(default=None)
.. method:: MatchObject.groupdict([default])
Return a dictionary containing all the *named* subgroups of the match, keyed by
the subgroup name. The *default* argument is used for groups that did not
@ -903,8 +906,8 @@ support the following methods and attributes:
{'first_name': 'Malcolm', 'last_name': 'Reynolds'}
.. method:: MatchObject.start(group=0)
MatchObject.end(group=0)
.. method:: MatchObject.start([group])
MatchObject.end([group])
Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by *group*;
*group* defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched substring). Return ``-1`` if
@ -927,7 +930,7 @@ support the following methods and attributes:
'tony@tiger.net'
.. method:: MatchObject.span(group=0)
.. method:: MatchObject.span([group])
For :class:`MatchObject` *m*, return the 2-tuple ``(m.start(group),
m.end(group))``. Note that if *group* did not contribute to the match, this is