https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/51a56a3a7bd8cf05ceda65e843fb7bae40509799 commit: 51a56a3a7bd8cf05ceda65e843fb7bae40509799 branch: main author: Adorilson Bezerra <[email protected]> committer: vstinner <[email protected]> date: 2026-01-07T16:16:25Z summary:
gh-106318: Add examples for str.casefold() and str.lower() methods (#142154) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 5d64af43b69828..ae197f765d1e16 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1844,6 +1844,14 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). lowercase letter ``'ß'`` is equivalent to ``"ss"``. Since it is already lowercase, :meth:`lower` would do nothing to ``'ß'``; :meth:`casefold` converts it to ``"ss"``. + For example: + + .. doctest:: + + >>> 'straße'.lower() + 'straße' + >>> 'straße'.casefold() + 'strasse' The casefolding algorithm is `described in section 3.13.3 'Default Case Folding' of the Unicode Standard @@ -2300,7 +2308,12 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). .. method:: str.lower() Return a copy of the string with all the cased characters [4]_ converted to - lowercase. + lowercase. For example: + + .. doctest:: + + >>> 'Lower Method Example'.lower() + 'lower method example' The lowercasing algorithm used is `described in section 3.13.2 'Default Case Conversion' of the Unicode Standard _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
