behavior for finding an empty string is inconsistent with documentation

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, internationalization

Research direction

The payload names no source file or test; begin with linked BPO issue 24243 and the relevant documentation for finding an empty string, then inspect the current Python behavior. Done means the inconsistency between the documented and actual behavior is resolved and the affected documentation or behavior is updated accordingly.

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Description

docs interpreter-core topic-unicode type-bug
BPO 24243
Nosy @malemburg, @rhettinger, @pitrou, @vstinner, @benjaminp, @ezio-melotti, @bitdancer, @vadmium, @serhiy-storchaka, @vedgar

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-05-20.04:02:42.226>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-bug', 'expert-unicode', 'docs']
title = 'behavior for finding an empty string is inconsistent with documentation'
updated_at = <Date 2017-09-18.21:10:09.592>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/swanson'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2017-09-18.21:10:09.592>
actor = 'r.david.murray'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Interpreter Core', 'Unicode']
creation = <Date 2015-05-20.04:02:42.226>
creator = 'swanson'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 24243
keywords = []
message_count = 12.0
messages = ['243640', '243656', '243658', '243666', '243668', '243670', '243710', '243722', '244028', '302488', '302489', '302491']
nosy_count = 12.0
nosy_names = ['lemburg', 'rhettinger', 'pitrou', 'vstinner', 'benjamin.peterson', 'ezio.melotti', 'r.david.murray', 'docs@python', 'martin.panter', 'serhiy.storchaka', 'veky', 'swanson']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue24243'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5']

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