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Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value. 

Minor changes to doc:  s/maxsplit/maxreplace
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Senthil Kumaran 2010-09-08 12:40:45 +00:00
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@ -508,16 +508,15 @@ def capitalize(s):
return s.capitalize()
# Substring replacement (global)
def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1):
"""replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string
def replace(s, old, new, maxreplace=-1):
"""replace (str, old, new[, maxreplace]) -> string
Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring
old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is
given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced. A
negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances.
old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxreplace is
given, only the first maxreplace occurrences are replaced.
"""
return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit)
return s.replace(old, new, maxreplace)
# Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists,