[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-827260 ] Parameter is misnamed in str.replace documentation.

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Bugs item #827260, was opened at 2003-10-20 23:53
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeremy Fincher (jemfinch)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Parameter is misnamed in str.replace documentation.

Initial Comment:
>>> print str.replace.__doc__
S.replace (old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string

Return a copy of string S with all occurrences of substring
old replaced by new.  If the optional argument maxsplit is
given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced.

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Honestly, that optional parameter really shouldn't be
called "maxsplit" since there's no splitting going on.
 Just plain "max" would be better.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2003-10-21 22:59

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Agreed; I've changed the parameter name to simply "count".

Fixed in Objects/stringobject.c revisions 2.212 and 2.209,
Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex revisions 1.138 and 1.129.8.7.

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