From 82b515da9ff24e3e75b3eadecb4db09ba7c6484b 2019-01-24 00:07:33 From: Matthias Bussonnier Date: 2019-01-24 00:07:33 Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #11564 from techtonik/patch-3 More readable .n, .s, .p reference --- diff --git a/docs/source/interactive/shell.rst b/docs/source/interactive/shell.rst index 420f5a5..3c72702 100644 --- a/docs/source/interactive/shell.rst +++ b/docs/source/interactive/shell.rst @@ -186,13 +186,13 @@ First, capture output of "hg status":: Now we can just remove these files by doing 'rm $junk.s'. -The .s, .n, .p properties +The .n, .s, .p properties ------------------------- -The ``.s`` property returns one string where lines are separated by -single space (for convenient passing to system commands). The ``.n`` -property return one string where the lines are separated by a newline -(i.e. the original output of the function). If the items in string -list are file names, ``.p`` can be used to get a list of "path" objects -for convenient file manipulation. +Properties of `SList `_ wrapper +provide a convenient ways to use contained text in different formats: +* ``.n`` returns (original) string with lines separated by a newline +* ``.s`` returns string with lines separated by single space (for + convenient passing to system commands) +* ``.p`` returns list of "path" objects from detected file names