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Thu May 25 03:33:47 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/065159.html

On 5/24/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > so, which one is correct ?
> >
> > Python 2.4.3
> >  >>> "".replace("", "a")
> > ''
> >  >>> u"".replace(u"", u"a")
> > u'a'
>
> Probably there shouldn't be any "correct" in this case,
> i.e. the result of replacing an empty string should be
> undefined (because any string contains infinitely many
> empty substrings).

No. That's what older versions of Python did, and it was changed to
the current behavior, except someone screwed up the edge case for
8-bit strings.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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