https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/23a658b9af410b72beeb28ba4ace2d83896c5631
commit: 23a658b9af410b72beeb28ba4ace2d83896c5631
branch: main
author: Rafael Fontenelle <rffontene...@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: AA-Turner <9087854+aa-tur...@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2025-04-01T08:19:06+01:00
summary:
Minor improvements to the programming FAQ (#127261)
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-tur...@users.noreply.github.com>
files:
M Doc/faq/programming.rst
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 776bab1ed5b779..b39efced304e45 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ There are various techniques.
f()
-Is there an equivalent to Perl's chomp() for removing trailing newlines from
strings?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Is there an equivalent to Perl's ``chomp()`` for removing trailing newlines
from strings?
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can use ``S.rstrip("\r\n")`` to remove all occurrences of any line
terminator from the end of the string ``S`` without removing other trailing
@@ -1005,8 +1005,8 @@ Since this is typically only desired when reading text
one line at a time, using
``S.rstrip()`` this way works well.
-Is there a scanf() or sscanf() equivalent?
-------------------------------------------
+Is there a ``scanf()`` or ``sscanf()`` equivalent?
+--------------------------------------------------
Not as such.
@@ -1020,8 +1020,8 @@ For more complicated input parsing, regular expressions
are more powerful
than C's ``sscanf`` and better suited for the task.
-What does 'UnicodeDecodeError' or 'UnicodeEncodeError' error mean?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
+What does ``UnicodeDecodeError`` or ``UnicodeEncodeError`` error mean?
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
See the :ref:`unicode-howto`.
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ A raw string ending with an odd number of backslashes
will escape the string's q
>>> r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
File "<stdin>", line 1
r'C:\this\will\not\work\'
- ^
+ ^
SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)
There are several workarounds for this. One is to use regular strings and
double
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