[Python-ideas] str.rreplace

[MRAB]

On 2014-01-24 20:48, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:33 AM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
>>>>>'aaa'[::-1].replace('aa'[::-1],'x'[::-1])[::-1]
>> 'ax'
>
> It makes me happy when the [::-1] smiley gets used that many times to
> solve a problem. Very happy.
>
> Happy that it isn't in _my_ code, to be precise...
>
It's probably not as efficient, either!

And if we're going to do it that way, do we really need .rindex and
.rfind? Or .rstrip (we could use .lstrip)?