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Subject: [3.13] gh-106318: Add examples for str.rfind() method (GH-143582) (#143617)
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[3.13] gh-106318: Add examples for str.rfind() method (GH-143582) (#143617)

gh-106318: Add examples for str.rfind() method (GH-143582)
(cherry picked from commit c696f33d9ee425d7acd5de90d5418a3280444962)

Co-authored-by: Adorilson Bezerra <adorilson@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 527717b8deb3..438b07f22366 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2278,6 +2278,16 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    Return the highest index in the string where substring *sub* is found, such
    that *sub* is contained within ``s[start:end]``.  Optional arguments *start*
    and *end* are interpreted as in slice notation.  Return ``-1`` on failure.
+   For example:
+
+   .. doctest::
+
+      >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.rfind('sp')
+      12
+      >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.rfind('sp', 0, 10)
+      6
+
+   See also :meth:`find` and :meth:`rindex`.
 
 
 .. method:: str.rindex(sub[, start[, end]])