[Python-Dev] str.rreplace (original) (raw)

Ram Rachum ram at rachum.com
Fri Jan 24 18:33:23 CET 2014

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.

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

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum <ram at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140124/7707966a/attachment-0001.html>

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