string.replace() question

[Per Jensen]

Many thanks to the both of you

/Per

On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 09:58:58 +0100, Per Jensen wrote:

> The Python doc on string.replace says this:
> 
> replace(str, old, new[, maxsplit])
> """Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring old
> replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is given, the first
> maxsplit occurrences are replaced."""
> 
> 
> I must have a blind spot, but the method doesn't seem to work quite like
> that. Example:
> 
> bash-2.05$ python
> Python 2.2.1 (#1, Sep 24 2002, 21:50:51) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on
> linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
>>>> import string
>>>> string.replace("C:\py21\gallery\resized", "\\", "/")
> 'C:/py21/gallery\resized'
>>>>
>>>>
> Notice that the last "\" is not replaced with a "/"
> 
> My question is why ?
> 
> /Per