[Python-ideas] str.find() and friends support a lists of inputs

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew Barnert wrote:
> There are a few cases where Python deals with this problem by treating tuples
> specially (e.g., % formatting), but I don't think anyone wants to extend that
> solution.

The startswith() and endswith() methods already accept a tuple
in place of a string, and require it to be a tuple. So I think
it would be entirely reasonable to do the same for replace().

-- 
Greg