From a240cb1f2d7a85c3f12e95780361a02765a800f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:40:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value. Minor changes to doc: s/maxsplit/maxreplace --- Lib/string.py | 11 +++++------ 1 file 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, -- 2.40.0