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 <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum <r...@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. >
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