It would be consistent to apply it to other functions and I'd be in favour of that, yes.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:01 AM Calvin Spealman <cspea...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> As an alternative suggestion: What if the count parameter to >> str.replace() counted from the right with negative values? That would be >> consistent with other things like indexing and slicing. >> > > That could certainly be made to work, but I think it fails the > discoverability test. You'd have the [:]-syntax and replace working one > way, and split/rsplit, find/rfind and so on working another way. Unless > you're proposing the negative index for the latter ones also? >
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