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Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value.

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Minor changes to doc:  s/maxsplit/maxreplace
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Senthil Kumaran 2010-09-08 12:40:45 +00:00
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@ -508,16 +508,15 @@ def capitalize(s):
return s.capitalize() return s.capitalize()
# Substring replacement (global) # Substring replacement (global)
def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1): def replace(s, old, new, maxreplace=-1):
"""replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string """replace (str, old, new[, maxreplace]) -> string
Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring
old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxreplace is
given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced. A given, only the first maxreplace occurrences are replaced.
negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances.
""" """
return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit) return s.replace(old, new, maxreplace)
# Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists, # Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists,