Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment: I am fine with your proposal, Raymond. When I went about the change the docstrings, I did notice that it is not an intentional feature to provide negative values in the replace argument. The negative value (-1 as count) was being used somewhat as a sentinel value to denote replace-all.
I have no problem in reverting current documentation fix, but as a fix we can remove the existing reference of -1 in docstrings of str.replace so that it does not cause any confusing, which was the point of the original bug-report. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5416> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
