swanson added the comment: Thanks for pointing out how count and replace operate. I don't mind the "ValueError: empty separator" on split and partition - makes sense to me.
re: "at least as long as the slice indexes are within range" If the slices indexes had to be in range, that would be inconsistent with the behavior of slicing, which is inconsistent with the docs, which was my main point. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24243> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com