[Python-ideas] str.rreplace

[spir]

On 01/28/2014 05:03 AM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>> >(A shorter key word would be nice, but I can't think of any that is as
>> >clear.)
> Why does it have to be -1/0/1 instead of just True/False?
>
> In which case we could use "reverse", the same name that's already used for similar things in other methods like list.sort (and that's implied in the current names "rfind", etc.).

(Again, here there is no reversal, but backwards iteration; in list.sort, there 
is reversal. I'd vote for making all such methods use a logical param, if it did 
not break code [because eg rfind is used], on the line:
	l.find(it, backwards=False)
or a shorter param name.
)

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