Replace first occurrence only of a string?

Question

I have something like this:

text = \'This text is very very long.\'
replace_words = [\'very\',\'word\']

for word in replace_words:
    text = text.replace(\         


        

Answer 1

From http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/string-methods.html :

replace( old, new[, count])
Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

I didn't try but I believe it works