gh-136572: fix IndexError
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I don't think those functions are part of the public API, but as they are publicly named, I'll still add the NEWS entry just in case.
@serhiy-storchaka I actually wondered between raising a TypeError and a ValueError but I went with a TypeError as it's what we raise when something doesn't match a signature (in some sense, we can assume that we have infinitely many overloads of the form
replace(text, p1, p2, ..., pN, p{N+1})
).IndexError
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