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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-10-10 14:43:38 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-10-10 14:43:38 -0700
commitaff69c34b04390488ff8a364894f9e0c25fc4435 (patch)
tree9b6419a4c96744e0ac14d320c1913f665cb77e12
parent164dddf5f8c9c6b93f32c9f79b4301fc804576e9 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-aff69c34b04390488ff8a364894f9e0c25fc4435.tar.gz
Fix the "Finding all Adverbs" example (GH-21420) (#28839)
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit dbd62e74dadda7868f1c0d497414c8f7e4c0b12b) Co-authored-by: Rim Chatti <chattiriim@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/re.rst4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index ff7687cc93..b12ce4b974 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ find all of the adverbs in some text, they might use :func:`findall` in
the following manner::
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
- >>> re.findall(r"\w+ly", text)
+ >>> re.findall(r"\w+ly\b", text)
['carefully', 'quickly']
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ a writer wanted to find all of the adverbs *and their positions* in
some text, they would use :func:`finditer` in the following manner::
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
- >>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly", text):
+ >>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly\b", text):
... print('%02d-%02d: %s' % (m.start(), m.end(), m.group(0)))
07-16: carefully
40-47: quickly