[Python-Dev] str.rreplace

[Ram Rachum]

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:

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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Now that I know it doesn't exist, I'll ask this on python-ideas.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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