From c2aa182e4557a2418ff3ffa5d9dc5adb4ee21972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joris Van den Bossche <jorisvandenbossche@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:01:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: update .str.contains/match/startswith docstring examples
 for default  behaviour

---
 pandas/core/strings/accessor.py | 60 +++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
index 14dadd9b41772..c108808905dc7 100644
--- a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
+++ b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
@@ -1242,9 +1242,9 @@ def contains(
             Flags to pass through to the re module, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.
         na : scalar, optional
             Fill value for missing values. The default depends on dtype of the
-            array. For object-dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable
-            ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used. For the ``"str"`` dtype,
-            ``False`` is used.
+            array. For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used. For object
+            dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable ``StringDtype``,
+            ``pandas.NA`` is used.
         regex : bool, default True
             If True, assumes the pat is a regular expression.
 
@@ -1293,18 +1293,6 @@ def contains(
         4    False
         dtype: bool
 
-        Specifying `na` to be `False` instead of `NaN` replaces NaN values
-        with `False`. If Series or Index does not contain NaN values
-        the resultant dtype will be `bool`, otherwise, an `object` dtype.
-
-        >>> s1.str.contains("og", na=False, regex=True)
-        0    False
-        1     True
-        2    False
-        3    False
-        4    False
-        dtype: bool
-
         Returning 'house' or 'dog' when either expression occurs in a string.
 
         >>> s1.str.contains("house|dog", regex=True)
@@ -1381,9 +1369,9 @@ def match(self, pat: str, case: bool = True, flags: int = 0, na=lib.no_default):
             Regex module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.
         na : scalar, optional
             Fill value for missing values. The default depends on dtype of the
-            array. For object-dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable
-            ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used. For the ``"str"`` dtype,
-            ``False`` is used.
+            array. For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used. For object
+            dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable ``StringDtype``,
+            ``pandas.NA`` is used.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -1431,9 +1419,9 @@ def fullmatch(self, pat, case: bool = True, flags: int = 0, na=lib.no_default):
             Regex module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.
         na : scalar, optional
             Fill value for missing values. The default depends on dtype of the
-            array. For object-dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable
-            ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used. For the ``"str"`` dtype,
-            ``False`` is used.
+            array. For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used. For object
+            dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable ``StringDtype``,
+            ``pandas.NA`` is used.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -2671,9 +2659,9 @@ def startswith(
             accepted.
         na : scalar, optional
             Object shown if element tested is not a string. The default depends
-            on dtype of the array. For object-dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used.
-            For the nullable ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used.
-            For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used.
+            on dtype of the array. For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used.
+            For object dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable
+            ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -2710,15 +2698,6 @@ def startswith(
         2    False
         3    False
         dtype: bool
-
-        Specifying `na` to be `False` instead of `NaN`.
-
-        >>> s.str.startswith("b", na=False)
-        0     True
-        1    False
-        2    False
-        3    False
-        dtype: bool
         """
         if not isinstance(pat, (str, tuple)):
             msg = f"expected a string or tuple, not {type(pat).__name__}"
@@ -2742,9 +2721,9 @@ def endswith(
             accepted.
         na : scalar, optional
             Object shown if element tested is not a string. The default depends
-            on dtype of the array. For object-dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used.
-            For the nullable ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used.
-            For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used.
+            on dtype of the array. For the ``"str"`` dtype, ``False`` is used.
+            For object dtype, ``numpy.nan`` is used. For the nullable
+            ``StringDtype``, ``pandas.NA`` is used.
 
         Returns
         -------
@@ -2781,15 +2760,6 @@ def endswith(
         2     True
         3    False
         dtype: bool
-
-        Specifying `na` to be `False` instead of `NaN`.
-
-        >>> s.str.endswith("t", na=False)
-        0     True
-        1    False
-        2    False
-        3    False
-        dtype: bool
         """
         if not isinstance(pat, (str, tuple)):
             msg = f"expected a string or tuple, not {type(pat).__name__}"