Hi all,
in writing my response to Mark Leeds' recent question about replacing text at the end of a string, I was moved to wonder if it wouldn't it be handy if the replace method of string instances did one of the following:
took a negative integer for count and interpreted that as replace the absolute value of count many instance, but starting from the end of the string, or,
had a default parameter from_end=False, such that if it were True, replacements happened count many times, starting from the end?
I get that it isn't too much of a hassle to write a function to do this (heck, *I* did it, so it cannot be too rough ;-). But, it seems a common enough task to be a useful addition nevertheless. (And the speed of the C implementation wouldn't hurt, either.)
Is there already a pre-rolled way to do this that I've overlooked? Or some strong reason there oughtn't be?
Thanks, and best to all,
Brian vdB
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