[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
andrew.svetlov
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Dec 23 19:09:11 CET 2012
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c390dc999fcc
changeset: 81004:c390dc999fcc
branch: 2.7
parent: 80996:3046bfea59f3
user: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com>
date: Sun Dec 23 20:09:01 2012 +0200
summary:
Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
files:
Misc/ACKS | 1 +
Misc/NEWS | 3 +
Modules/_sre.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -499,6 +499,7 @@
Peter van Kampen
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Piotr Kasprzyk
+Anton Kasyanov
Lou Kates
Hiroaki Kawai
Sebastien Keim
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
+ Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
+
- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
diff --git a/Modules/_sre.c b/Modules/_sre.c
--- a/Modules/_sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre.c
@@ -3545,14 +3545,54 @@
#endif
}
-static struct PyMethodDef match_methods[] = {
- {"group", (PyCFunction) match_group, METH_VARARGS},
- {"start", (PyCFunction) match_start, METH_VARARGS},
- {"end", (PyCFunction) match_end, METH_VARARGS},
- {"span", (PyCFunction) match_span, METH_VARARGS},
- {"groups", (PyCFunction) match_groups, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
- {"groupdict", (PyCFunction) match_groupdict, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
- {"expand", (PyCFunction) match_expand, METH_O},
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_doc,
+"The result of re.match() and re.search().\n\
+Match objects always have a boolean value of True.");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_group_doc,
+"group([group1, ...]) -> str or tuple.\n\
+ Return subgroup(s) of the match by indices or names.\n\
+ For 0 returns the entire match.");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_start_doc,
+"start([group=0]) -> int.\n\
+ Return index of the start of the substring matched by group.");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_end_doc,
+"end([group=0]) -> int.\n\
+ Return index of the end of the substring matched by group.");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_span_doc,
+"span([group]) -> tuple.\n\
+ For MatchObject m, return the 2-tuple (m.start(group), m.end(group)).");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_groups_doc,
+"groups([default=None]) -> tuple.\n\
+ Return a tuple containing all the subgroups of the match, from 1.\n\
+ The default argument is used for groups\n\
+ that did not participate in the match");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_groupdict_doc,
+"groupdict([default=None]) -> dict.\n\
+ Return a dictionary containing all the named subgroups of the match,\n\
+ keyed by the subgroup name. The default argument is used for groups\n\
+ that did not participate in the match");
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(match_expand_doc,
+"expand(template) -> str.\n\
+ Return the string obtained by doing backslash substitution\n\
+ on the string template, as done by the sub() method.");
+
+static PyMethodDef match_methods[] = {
+ {"group", (PyCFunction) match_group, METH_VARARGS, match_group_doc},
+ {"start", (PyCFunction) match_start, METH_VARARGS, match_start_doc},
+ {"end", (PyCFunction) match_end, METH_VARARGS, match_end_doc},
+ {"span", (PyCFunction) match_span, METH_VARARGS, match_span_doc},
+ {"groups", (PyCFunction) match_groups, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
+ match_groups_doc},
+ {"groupdict", (PyCFunction) match_groupdict, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
+ match_groupdict_doc},
+ {"expand", (PyCFunction) match_expand, METH_O, match_expand_doc},
{"__copy__", (PyCFunction) match_copy, METH_NOARGS},
{"__deepcopy__", (PyCFunction) match_deepcopy, METH_O},
{NULL, NULL}
@@ -3632,7 +3672,7 @@
0, /* tp_setattro */
0, /* tp_as_buffer */
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT,
- 0, /* tp_doc */
+ match_doc, /* tp_doc */
0, /* tp_traverse */
0, /* tp_clear */
0, /* tp_richcompare */
--
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