[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Berker Peksag]

Berker Peksag added the comment:

> This should also be applied to regex.search's docstring.

Done.

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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

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New changeset 48bb48e7499d by Berker Peksag in branch '3.5':
Issue #21593: Clarify that re.search() returns the first match
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48bb48e7499d

New changeset 243b95782059 by Berker Peksag in branch 'default':
Issue #21593: Merge from 3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/243b95782059

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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Ezio Melotti]

Changes by Ezio Melotti :


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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Joshua Landau]

Changes by Joshua Landau :


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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Joshua Landau]

Joshua Landau added the comment:

This should also be applied to regex.search's docstring.

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/re.html#re.regex.search

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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

Since I am 99.999% sure that first is intended, I will change 'a location' to 
'the first location'.

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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Roundup Robot]

Roundup Robot added the comment:

New changeset f7bb1d73a341 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f7bb1d73a341

New changeset 6013a112aba0 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4':
Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6013a112aba0

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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Terry J. Reedy]

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu:


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[issue21593] Clarify re.search documentation first match

[Joshua Landau]

New submission from Joshua Landau:

The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. 
This should be added, or a clarification added if this is 
implementation-defined.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search

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See also

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23906400/is-regular-expression-search-guaranteed-to-return-first-match

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