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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ram Rachum <ram@rachum.com> wrote:

I knew it didn't exist by that name, but couldn't know whether there was another function that did the same thing or technique to make it not needed.

So I couldn't know whether it's new or not, therefore I couldn't know whether it should be on python-ideas or not.

So then you were simply wondering about its existence, for which you should go to python-list or python-ideas first. Python-ideas exists *explicitly* as a filter for this kind of question which is why people are saying it should have gone there first (or to python-list).

If you have any doubt as to whether a question should go here or not, then err on the side of caution and post to python-ideas or python-list first.

-Brett

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum <ram@rachum.com> wrote:

You see, Antoine, \*you\* know that it's better asked on python-ideas because you know it doesn't exist in Python, therefore it's an idea for an addition. However, when a person like me asks this question, he does not know whether it exists or not, so he can't know whether he's proposing a new idea or whether it's something that exists under a different name or whether that's something that can't exist because of some unknown reason that the asker didn't think of.

Now that I know it doesn't exist, I'll ask this on python-ideas.

I think there might be a language issue here because you originally said "Why is there no�str.rreplace in Python?" which shows you already knew it didn't exist. Did you mean to say you wanted to know *why* it didn't exist?

Even in that case, if searching for \[python str.rreplace\] didn't turn up anything then chances are there was no proposal, which makes it a new idea and thus belongs on python-ideas. Basically the rule of thumb is anything considered new goes to python-ideas first.