On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:55:38PM -0700, Xah Lee wrote: > if i have > mytext.replace(a,b) > how to find out many many occurances has been replaced?
The count isn't returned by the replace method. You'll have to count and then replace. def count_replace(a, b, c): count = a.count(b) return count, s.replace(b, c) >>> count_replace("a car and a carriage", "car", "bat") (2, 'a bat and a batriage')
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