Small error in regular expression poker hand example

[EddieE]

BPO	13613
Nosy	@ezio-melotti
Files	issue13613.diff: Patch against 2.7.

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title = 'Small error in regular expression poker hand example'
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[EddieE]

The documentation for Python 2.7.2 has a section of examples for the regular expression match() function, based on a poker hand, at section 7.2.6.1. These examples show a suit of cards as having 14 cards! The ace is counted twice, as '1' and 'a'. Remind me not to play poker against the author.

I would suggest changing the range of the characters that represent the cards' denominations to [2-9tjqka], with a 't' representing a 10, rather than using a '0', and not using either the '0' or the '1'.

[EddieE]

Changes proposed in file 23978 look good to me!

On 16/12/2011 13:28, Ezio Melotti wrote:

Changes by Ezio Melotti<ezio.melotti@gmail.com>:

Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23978/issue13613.diff

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[python-dev]

New changeset 766a21ebf82e by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
bpo-13613: fix example in re doc.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/766a21ebf82e

New changeset 0b86da9d6964 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
bpo-13613: fix example in re doc.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0b86da9d6964

New changeset f2e1867f33b8 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
bpo-13613: merge with 3.2.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f2e1867f33b8

[ezio-melotti]

Fixed, thanks for the report!