[Tutor] What's the logic behind parameters and arguments?

[Alan Gauld]

"Rafael Durán Castañeda" <rafadurancastaneda at gmail.com> wrote

>I don't see discrepancy, end and count are two arguments than mean 
>very
> different things. End is the position where find ends, it could be 
> included
> or excluded, in this case is excluded. Count is the maximun number 
> of
> substrings you want to replace, it wouldn't make sense count=6 if 
> you want
> to replace 5.

And in general Python uses the convention for *positional* values
that it goes up to but not including the last position.

Compare slicing, range() etc.

HTH,


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