Hi all,
in writing my response to Mark Leeds' recent question about replacing
text at the end of a string, I was moved to wonder if it wouldn't it
be handy if the replace method of string instances did one of the
following:
took a negative integer for count and interpreted that as replace the
absolute value of count many instance, but starting from the end of
the string, or,
had a default parameter from_end=False, such that if it were True,
replacements happened count many times, starting from the end?
I get that it isn't too much of a hassle to write a function to do
this (heck, *I* did it, so it cannot be too rough ;-). But, it seems a
common enough task to be a useful addition nevertheless. (And the
speed of the C implementation wouldn't hurt, either.)
Is there already a pre-rolled way to do this that I've overlooked? Or
some strong reason there oughtn't be?
Thanks, and best to all,
Brian vdB
in writing my response to Mark Leeds' recent question about replacing
text at the end of a string, I was moved to wonder if it wouldn't it
be handy if the replace method of string instances did one of the
following:
took a negative integer for count and interpreted that as replace the
absolute value of count many instance, but starting from the end of
the string, or,
had a default parameter from_end=False, such that if it were True,
replacements happened count many times, starting from the end?
I get that it isn't too much of a hassle to write a function to do
this (heck, *I* did it, so it cannot be too rough ;-). But, it seems a
common enough task to be a useful addition nevertheless. (And the
speed of the C implementation wouldn't hurt, either.)
Is there already a pre-rolled way to do this that I've overlooked? Or
some strong reason there oughtn't be?
Thanks, and best to all,
Brian vdB