Issue5416 - Revert a documentatin change made to explain replace on negative value.
Minor changes to doc: s/maxsplit/maxreplace
diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 9477268..5e13d15 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -508,16 +508,15 @@
return s.capitalize()
# Substring replacement (global)
-def replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1):
- """replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string
+def replace(s, old, new, maxreplace=-1):
+ """replace (str, old, new[, maxreplace]) -> string
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. A
- negative value of maxsplit signifies all occurances.
+ old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxreplace is
+ given, only the first maxreplace occurrences are replaced.
"""
- return s.replace(old, new, maxsplit)
+ return s.replace(old, new, maxreplace)
# Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists,