rreplace - How to replace the last occurence of an expression in a string

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Published on 2010-03-31T20:07:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 20:23 UTC
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Is there a quick way in Python to replace strings by starting from the end? For example:

>>> def rreplace(old, new, occurence)
>>>     ... # Code to replace the last occurences of old by new

>>> '<div><div>Hello</div></div>'.rreplace('</div>','</bad>',1)
>>> '<div><div>Hello</div></bad>'

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