diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strop.py b/Lib/test/test_strop.py
index 5770046..de7a795 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_strop.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_strop.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three!', '!', '@', 2)
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three@', '!', '@', 3)
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three@', '!', '@', 4)
-test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three@', '!', '@', 0)
+test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one!two!three!', '!', '@', 0)
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three@', '!', '@')
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one!two!three!', 'x', '@')
 test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one!two!three!', 'x', '@', 2)
diff --git a/Modules/stropmodule.c b/Modules/stropmodule.c
index c245794..aa9cdc7 100644
--- a/Modules/stropmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/stropmodule.c
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@
 {
 	char *str, *pat,*sub,*new_s;
 	int len,pat_len,sub_len,out_len;
-	int count = 0;
+	int count = -1;
 	PyObject *new;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "t#t#t#|i:replace",