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Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search. [#21593]

Terry Jan Reedy tjreedy@udel.edu
date	Fri, 30 May 2014 16:19:59 -0400
parents	220bed23696e
children	b68035e0c9b6 53fa2c9523d4
files	Doc/library/re.rst
diffstat	1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)[+] [-] Doc/library/re.rst 2

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--- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ form. .. function:: search(pattern, string, flags=0)

Scan through string looking for the first location where the regular expression pattern produces a match, and return a corresponding :ref:match object[](#l1.9) <match-objects>. Return None if no position in the string matches the pattern; note that this is different from finding a zero-length match at some