[issue39304] Don't accept a negative number for the count argument in str.replace(old, new[, count])

[Karthikeyan Singaravelan]

Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks for the details. I looked into the tests for this behavior too and agree it's a tested behavior. issue5416 already had similar discussion and the documentation was committed to be later reverted upon Raymond's suggestion. So I will leave it to him.

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