[Python-Dev] string slicing and method consistency

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Greg Wilson wrote:
> Is it worth making
> replace, split, etc. interpret negative indices in the
> same way as indexing does?

I think this would be really cool in particular for split().
(And if it worked for split it would have to work for replace.)


-- ?!ng