[Python-Dev] str.rreplace

[Ram Rachum]

Okay, next time I'll ask on python-ideas. (I do hope that no one there will
be angry that I'm posting a question there rather than an idea...)


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

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