<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Brett Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=brett@python.org&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">brett@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ram@rachum.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=ram@rachum.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">ram@rachum.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>Now that I know it doesn't exist, I'll ask this on python-ideas.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I think there might be a language issue here because you originally said "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span></div>
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