Changes by Stéphane Henriot <shl...@gmail.com>:
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Stéphane Henriot added the comment:
I understand it might be a rather rare case.
Nevertheless, don't you think the inconsistency Serhiy pointed out makes it
look like a bug needing a fix?
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Stéphane Henriot added the comment:
Thanks for your help.
However, I'm not sure I would agree, regarding the correct behavior.
I guess the main question is « What is an occurrence? ».
Are you not convinced that in, count and find indicate occurrences?
To my understanding, the empty string
Stéphane Henriot added the comment:
For what it's worth, here is the behavior in PyPy 2.2.1
>>>> "".replace("", "prefix", 1)
'prefix'
>>>> "".replace("", "prefix")
'prefix'
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New submission from Stéphane Henriot:
A few days ago, the following behavior surprised me.
>>> "".replace("", "prefix", 1)
''
>>> "".replace("", "prefix")
'prefix'
It seems to me this edge case isn't correctly docu
