[Python-ideas] Revisiting str.rreplace()

[Eric Fahlgren]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:01 AM Calvin Spealman <cspealma at redhat.com> wrote:

> As an alternative suggestion: What if the count parameter to str.replace()
> counted from the right with negative values? That would be consistent with
> other things like indexing and slicing.
>

​That could certainly be made to work, but I think it fails the
discoverability test.  You'd have the [:]-syntax and replace working one
way, and split/rsplit, find/rfind and so on working another way.  Unless
you're proposing the negative index for the latter ones also?​
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