From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:48:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6679: Remove mention that sub supports no flags.
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#6679: Remove mention that sub supports no flags.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index df63f9bec280..c099fcd59d66 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -635,9 +635,7 @@ form.
       >>> re.sub(r'\sAND\s', ' & ', 'Baked Beans And Spam', flags=re.IGNORECASE)
       'Baked Beans & Spam'
 
-   The pattern may be a string or an RE object; if you need to specify regular
-   expression flags, you must use a RE object, or use embedded modifiers in a
-   pattern; for example, ``sub("(?i)b+", "x", "bbbb BBBB")`` returns ``'x x'``.
+   The pattern may be a string or an RE object.
 
    The optional argument *count* is the maximum number of pattern occurrences to be
    replaced; *count* must be a non-negative integer.  If omitted or zero, all