On 5/24/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > so, which one is correct ? > > > > Python 2.4.3 > > >>> "".replace("", "a") > > '' > > >>> u"".replace(u"", u"a") > > u'a' > > Probably there shouldn't be any "correct" in this case, > i.e. the result of replacing an empty string should be > undefined (because any string contains infinitely many > empty substrings).
No. That's what older versions of Python did, and it was changed to the current behavior, except someone screwed up the edge case for 8-bit strings. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com