Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
Reverted the changes in r84626 (release27-maint), r84629(py3k), r84630
(release31-maint).
- Minor doc clarification included wherein maxreplace is the argument instead
of maxsplit in py27.
- Also, did not bother to remove -1 in
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Thank you. Please do the reversion and the docstring fixup.
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Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
FWIW, we should be cautious about documenting all behaviors. It is arguable
that this was an implementation detail and not a guaranteed behavior. As soon
as you document it, people will rely on the API and all other
Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
I am fine with your proposal, Raymond. When I went about the change the
docstrings, I did notice that it is not an intentional feature to provide
negative values in the replace argument. The negative value (-1 as count) was
being used
Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
Fixed the doc string for release27-maint in revision r83879.
py3k (r83880) and release31-maint in r83881.
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stage: needs patch - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
type: feature request - behavior
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
Changing to doc issue as two people suggested. Can anyone suggest new text to
add?
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stage: unit test needed - needs
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New submission from David Majnemer david.majne...@gmail.com:
str.replace(, , asdf, -1) returns asdf, I believe this is not
correct and strictly speaking not up to the documentation posted. I am
of the opinion that it should function like str.replace(, , asdf,
0) which returns
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Daniel Diniz aja...@gmail.com added the comment:
Confirmed in trunk and py3k. Changing to RFE, set it to behavior if you
disagree.
Python 2.4 does return for str.replace(, , asdf, -1), the
change happened in rev46226, with the effbot adding this snippet (by
Andrew Dalke?):
if (maxcount
Senthil orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
And also look at the help on string.replace which sets -1 as the
default value for maxsplit optional argument and which again defaults
to replace-all.
Clearly, maxsplit= -1 is not equal to maxsplit = 0.
replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1)
replace
David W. Lambert lamber...@corning.com added the comment:
I completely agree that this is a documentation issue.
Also, or perhaps for foolish completeness, in
http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.html
we would point out that the following group of string methods also work
for bytes and
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