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diff Lib/string.py @ 64561:aa66df772e23 2.7
Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value.
Minor changes to doc: s/maxsplit/maxreplace
| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:40:45 +0000 |
| parents | 5e3c61cb7014 |
| children | 28e6a41c5ba0 |
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--- a/Lib/string.py Wed Sep 08 12:40:15 2010 +0000 +++ b/Lib/string.py Wed Sep 08 12:40:45 2010 +0000 @@ -508,16 +508,15 @@ return s.capitalize() # Substring replacement (global) -def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1): - """replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string +def replace(s, old, new, maxreplace=-1): + """replace (str, old, new[, maxreplace]) -> string Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring - old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is - given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced. A - negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances. + old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxreplace is + given, only the first maxreplace occurrences are replaced. """ - return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit) + return s.replace(old, new, maxreplace) # Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists,