From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 02:07:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Backport documentation improvement.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.12rc1~311
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2e6b54a4c147ad49e2e2c1c152b5847ba99712e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport documentation improvement.

Issue24898 - Improve str.find documentation.

Simplify str.find explaination as per Georg Brandl's suggestion.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 94bfac1ead26..fb9140d6c52d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -963,10 +963,9 @@ string functions based on regular expressions.
 
 .. method:: str.find(sub[, start[, end]])
 
-   Return the lowest index in the string where substring *sub* is found, such
-   that *sub* is contained in the slice ``s[start:end]``.  Optional arguments
-   *start* and *end* are interpreted as in slice notation.  Return ``-1`` if
-   *sub* is not found.
+   Return the lowest index in the string where substring *sub* is found within
+   the slice ``s[start:end]``.  Optional arguments *start* and *end* are
+   interpreted as in slice notation.  Return ``-1`` if *sub* is not found.
 
    .. note::