Commit ad37e9e7 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Clarify that capwords() removes leading/trailing whitespace.

Remove references to regsub, which is obsolescent.
parent f7c1e5a6
......@@ -96,9 +96,7 @@ Capitalize the first character of the argument.
Split the argument into words using \code{split}, capitalize each word
using \code{capitalize}, and join the capitalized words using
\code{join}. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by
a single space. (See also \code{regsub.capwords()} for a version
that doesn't change the delimiters, and lets you specify a word
separator.)
a single space, and removes leading and trailing whitespace.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s\, tabsize}
......@@ -161,8 +159,6 @@ string. The optional third argument \var{maxsplit} defaults to 0. If
it is nonzero, at most \var{maxsplit} number of splits occur, and the
remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list
(thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1} elements).
(See also \code{regsub.split()} for a version that allows specifying a
regular expression as the separator.)
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{splitfields}{s\optional{\, sep\optional{\, maxsplit}}}
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......@@ -96,9 +96,7 @@ Capitalize the first character of the argument.
Split the argument into words using \code{split}, capitalize each word
using \code{capitalize}, and join the capitalized words using
\code{join}. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by
a single space. (See also \code{regsub.capwords()} for a version
that doesn't change the delimiters, and lets you specify a word
separator.)
a single space, and removes leading and trailing whitespace.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s\, tabsize}
......@@ -161,8 +159,6 @@ string. The optional third argument \var{maxsplit} defaults to 0. If
it is nonzero, at most \var{maxsplit} number of splits occur, and the
remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the list
(thus, the list will have at most \code{\var{maxsplit}+1} elements).
(See also \code{regsub.split()} for a version that allows specifying a
regular expression as the separator.)
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{splitfields}{s\optional{\, sep\optional{\, maxsplit}}}
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