the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans

[py-user]

BPO	12385
Nosy	@bitdancer, @py-user

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title = 'the help for bytearray.maketrans describes bytes.maketrans'
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[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.

[bitdancer]

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.

[python-dev]

New changeset 586745894ab8 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.2':
Fix closes bpo-12385 - Clarify maketrans method docstring for bytes and bytearray object.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/586745894ab8