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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-10-22 02:56:40 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-10-22 02:56:40 (GMT)
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Avoid confusing name for the 3rd argument to str.replace().
This closes SF bug #827260.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index d19926d..bffcea9 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ Decodes the string using the codec registered for \var{encoding}.
may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default is
\code{'strict'}, meaning that encoding errors raise
\exception{ValueError}. Other possible values are \code{'ignore'} and
-\code{replace'}.
+\code{'replace'}.
\versionadded{2.2}
\end{methoddesc}
@@ -664,10 +664,10 @@ the string this method is called on.
\versionchanged[Support for the \var{chars} argument]{2.2.2}
\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{methoddesc}[string]{replace}{old, new\optional{, maxsplit}}
+\begin{methoddesc}[string]{replace}{old, new\optional{, count}}
Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring
\var{old} replaced by \var{new}. If the optional argument
-\var{maxsplit} is given, only the first \var{maxsplit} occurrences are
+\var{count} is given, only the first \var{count} occurrences are
replaced.
\end{methoddesc}