From 7a626b46df34cde1f44a143b7ebcb2ae3a58e9c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:05:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] pydoc.stripid() is now case-insensitive.

Closes bug #934282.  Thanks Robin Becker.
---
 Lib/pydoc.py | 8 ++++----
 Misc/ACKS    | 1 +
 Misc/NEWS    | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 267ff0610351..5c5102a3f5ed 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -104,12 +104,12 @@ def cram(text, maxlen):
         return text[:pre] + '...' + text[len(text)-post:]
     return text
 
+_re_stripid = re.compile(r' at 0x[0-9a-f]{6,}(>+)$', re.IGNORECASE)
 def stripid(text):
     """Remove the hexadecimal id from a Python object representation."""
-    # The behaviour of %p is implementation-dependent; we check two cases.
-    for pattern in [' at 0x[0-9a-f]{6,}(>+)$', ' at [0-9A-F]{8,}(>+)$']:
-        if re.search(pattern, repr(Exception)):
-            return re.sub(pattern, '\\1', text)
+    # The behaviour of %p is implementation-dependent in terms of case.
+    if _re_stripid.search(repr(Exception)):
+        return _re_stripid.sub(r'\1', text)
     return text
 
 def _is_some_method(object):
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 38763d134f83..acb5fd83baf8 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Samuel L. Bayer
 Donald Beaudry
 David Beazley
 Neal Becker
+Robin Becker
 Bill Bedford
 Reimer Behrends
 Thomas Bellman
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b01488bca40b..757549b1ed6d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ Extension modules
 - Bug #954364: inspect.getframeinfo() sometimes produces incorrect traceback
   line numbers
 
+Library
+-------
+
+- Bug #934282: make pydoc.stripid() be case-insensitive.
+
 What's New in Python 2.3.4 (final)?
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2.47.3