[Python-ideas] str.rreplace

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 09:40:49 CET 2014


On 01/28/2014 07:27 AM, Ron Adam wrote:
>> And of course str.find takes negative indices and that's actually used in some
>> quick&dirty scripts:
>>
>>      >>> has_ext = path.find('.', -4)
>>
>> Of course you could make an argument that any such scripts deserve to be broken…
>
> I'd say they are already broken in that particular case. ;-)

Not if the file(name)s are ones you create & control yourself. (Well, I don't 
mean I would program that way, except for a throwaway script. ;-)

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