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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-08-09 08:47:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-08-09 08:47:15 +0000 |
| commit | c0548c9d901fbf60f4e21056f1ecfa81149d923a (patch) | |
| tree | e4bd6bd0331a6feda21d8aa34fffadc776e05115 | |
| parent | d74ca12fddc8d57295d62bb84cc491992e5f8b26 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-c0548c9d901fbf60f4e21056f1ecfa81149d923a.tar.gz | |
Fix Issue5416 - explain negative value of maxplit in str.replace.
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/string.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 6faa1f02c8..9477268340 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -513,7 +513,8 @@ def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1): 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. + given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced. A + negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances. """ return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit) |