[Python-ideas] Revisiting str.rreplace()

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

I starting g reading this thread in the middle, on a phone.

But was very confused for a while because I didn’t notice that there
were two ‘r’s at the beginning of .rreplace

Just sayin’

-CHB

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 19, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 July 2018 at 16:25, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
>> It currently does something: it replaces all instances, just as if you
>> hadn't supplied a count (see my example below). You can't change its
>> behavior.
>
> ... without a deprecation cycle. Which is of course not worth it for
> something which could much more easily be done by adding an rreplace
> function - which is the real point of the comment.
> Paul
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