Allow `bytes.replace`'s 'count' to be a keyword argument
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Allow the 'count' argument of bytes.replace to be a keyword to better describe its use.
Since Python 3.13, the 'count' of str.replace can be a keyword argument to make the code more verbose. However, the same is not true for the 'count' argument of bytes.replace, which is still enforced to be a positional argument:
>>> 'aa'.replace('a', 'b', count=1) 'ba' >>> b'aa'.replace(b'a', b'b', count=1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<python-input-4>", line 1, in <module> b'aa'.replace(b'a', b'b', count=1) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TypeError: bytes.replace() takes no keyword arguments >>> b'aa'.replace(b'a', b'b', 1) b'ba'
Allowing 'count' to be a keyword argument here would allow writing more verbose code as well as make the standard library APIs more consistent.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
Suggested for str.replace in this issue: #106487