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  r69905 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-23 16:51:27 +0100 (Mo, 23 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5352: str.count() counts non-overlapping instances.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 0434ff229f276a80563e38a97a2684290e6a92d2..b4b8ef9e4d1956e0e62116a8bf7b65c7ee1d1616 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -795,9 +795,9 @@ string functions based on regular expressions.
 
 .. method:: str.count(sub[, start[, end]])
 
-   Return the number of occurrences of substring *sub* in the range [*start*,
-   *end*].  Optional arguments *start* and *end* are interpreted as in slice
-   notation.
+   Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring *sub* in the
+   range [*start*, *end*].  Optional arguments *start* and *end* are
+   interpreted as in slice notation.
 
 
 .. method:: str.decode([encoding[, errors]])