From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:03:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add warning about use of lowercase/uppercase with maketrans().
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~485
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3eebe60dc7ad854020ae839270f35b137c2893d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add warning about use of lowercase/uppercase with maketrans().
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 39392296842c..7d6f4bdaae09 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ Return a translation table suitable for passing to
 \function{translate()} or \function{regex.compile()}, that will map
 each character in \var{from} into the character at the same position
 in \var{to}; \var{from} and \var{to} must have the same length. 
+
+\strong{Warning:} don't use strings derived from \code{lowercase} and
+\code{uppercase} as arguments; in some locales, these don't have the
+same length.  For case conversions, always use \function{lower()} and
+\function{upper()}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{split}{s\optional{, sep\optional{, maxsplit}}}