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| author |   R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-27 18:32:32 -0500 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-27 18:32:32 -0500 |
| commit | ecef6cd2f1de88980dfbf417191a7b7f095ac5f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 609f95530eaed643e84e6dc60a0dae5fdac88324 | |
| parent | merge 3.3 (diff) | |
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whatsnew: return types of re functions.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 16799ff70c8..562a29a345f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1987,6 +1987,13 @@ Changes in the Python API in theory this should not cause backward compatibility issues since the disallowed command forms didn't make any sense and are unlikely to be in use. +* The :func:`re.split`, :func:`re.findall`, and :func:`re.sub` functions, and + the :meth:`~re.match.group` and :meth:`~re.match.groups` methods of + :class:``match`` objects now always return a *bytes* object when the string + to be matched is a :term:`bytes-like object`. Previously the return type + matched the input type, so if your code was depending on the return value + being, say, a ``bytearray``, you will need to change your code. + Changes in the C API -------------------- |