[issue12385] the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans

[Roundup Robot]

Roundup Robot  added the comment:

New changeset 586745894ab8 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.2':
Fix closes Issue12385 - Clarify maketrans method docstring for bytes and 
bytearray object.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/586745894ab8

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[issue12385] the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray  added the comment:

Hmm.  I wonder why we have two copies of this method.

Well, given that we do, the best fix for the docs would be to say "for use in 
the bytes or bytearray translate method" in both this docstring and the 
bytes.maketrans docstring.

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versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 3.1

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[issue12385] the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans

[py.user]

New submission from py.user :

help(bytearray.maketrans)

maketrans(...)
B.maketrans(frm, to) -> translation table

Return a translation table (a bytes object of length 256)
suitable for use in bytes.translate where each byte in frm is
mapped to the byte at the same position in to.
The strings frm and to must be of the same length.

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title: the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans
versions: Python 3.1

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