New submission from Mark Cline: The Title might be a bit awkward but this is what I mean:
before = ',,,,' after = before.replace(',,', ',null,') print(after) >,null,,null, I suspect it is starting the second search at the start of the first find + length of the find? ie: ,,,, 0123 Starting the next search at spot 2 (the 3rd ,). This might be expected behaviour as it is looking at the rest of the string after finding the match, as opposed to taking the updated string: ,null,,, after the first replace. (Actually, writing that out it does make sense that it would behave like this, but thought I would mention just in case I am missing something). [Its easy enough to work around it, but just thought I would mention it :D] ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 256877 nosy: Mark Cline priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: When doing string.replace, it uses the entire 'find' string and doesn't let it get reused... type: behavior versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25929> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com