Fix Issue5416 - explain negative value of maxplit in str.replace.

c0548c9d · Senthil Kumaran · d74ca12f · c0548c9d
Kaydet (Commit) c0548c9d authored Agu 09, 2010 tarafından Senthil Kumaran
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--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -513,7 +513,8 @@ def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1):

    Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring
    old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is
-    given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced.
+    given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced. A
+    negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances.

    """
    return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit)