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author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-09-08 12:40:45 +0000 |
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committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-09-08 12:40:45 +0000 |
commit | 20e41ac1607e600b556f92c0cf94b9c3cb4f3085 (patch) | |
tree | be57b00e2140387bebaff083b78cb18e0f08570a /Lib/string.py | |
parent | 10ba739ef19f8494a50015cc32b6e40c8b902637 (diff) | |
download | cpython-20e41ac1607e600b556f92c0cf94b9c3cb4f3085.tar.gz |
Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value.
Minor changes to doc: s/maxsplit/maxreplace
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/string.py')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 9477268340..5e13d15338 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -508,16 +508,15 @@ def capitalize(s): 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, |