[Python-checkins] GH-99183: Document behavior of count() for empty substrings (GH-99339)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2f4af2d99cffed6ba81e4b8fd886de6ae8625a3f
commit: 2f4af2d99cffed6ba81e4b8fd886de6ae8625a3f
branch: main
author: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: rhettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-11-10T15:20:01-06:00
summary:
GH-99183: Document behavior of count() for empty substrings (GH-99339)
files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 6701d794b511..332974e738c3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1617,6 +1617,9 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
range [*start*, *end*]. Optional arguments *start* and *end* are
interpreted as in slice notation.
+ If *sub* is empty, returns the number of empty strings between characters
+ which is the length of the string plus one.
+
.. method:: str.encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")
@@ -2698,6 +2701,9 @@ arbitrary binary data.
The subsequence to search for may be any :term:`bytes-like object` or an
integer in the range 0 to 255.
+ If *sub* is empty, returns the number of empty slices between characters
+ which is the length of the bytes object plus one.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.
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