Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-25 Thread Wes Turner
On Jan 24, 2014 9:13 PM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > On 25 January 2014 11:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:05AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > >> In this specific case, our general communication about the different > >> purposes of the core lists *isn't* particularly

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 25 January 2014 11:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:05AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> In this specific case, our general communication about the different >> purposes of the core lists *isn't* particularly good, > > Nick, I beg to differ: I think that our communicat

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:05AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > In this specific case, our general communication about the different > purposes of the core lists *isn't* particularly good, Nick, I beg to differ: I think that our communication in this regard actually is quite reasonable. Before s

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 25 Jan 2014 09:46, "Brett Cannon" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> >> >> Okay, I'll leave the snarky comments to the people who are authorised to be snarky. How do you get on this list? Is it any core dev, or are there more severe restrictions than that, for

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/01/2014 22:56, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence >> wrote: >> >>> On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence < breamore...@yahoo.co.

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:56, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence >> wrote: >>> >>> On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good place

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between >> python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think >> python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language.

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/24/2014 12:50 PM, Wes Turner wrote: On Jan 24, 2014 11:43 AM, "Terry Reedy" mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote: > > On 1/24/2014 12:19 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between >> python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Wes Turner
On Jan 24, 2014 11:43 AM, "Terry Reedy" wrote: > > On 1/24/2014 12:19 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: >> >> Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between >> python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think >> python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. >

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/24/2014 09:19 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. [snip] it's full of people asking about third-party Python

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: > 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...) > Nope, no one will. Just phrase it as "is there something like a str.rreplace? If not I think it

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread 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 wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: > >> I knew it didn't exist by that na

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them: > > - 58% are about third-party packages. > - 17% are off-topic (not even programming related) > - 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions > - 5% are job offers. > - 5% (which is just

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/24/2014 12:19 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. Python-list is the place for such discussions. Questions such a

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ram Rachum wrote: > 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 shou

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of the

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread 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

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Ram Rachum 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 exist

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Ram Rachum
Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language. I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them: - 58% are about third-party packages

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/24/2014 11:32 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? Ram, this list is for discussing the development of the next few releases of CPython. General questions should go to python-list. -- Terry Jan Reedy ___ Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556108/how-to-replace-the-last-occurence-of-an-expression-in-a-string On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? > > ___ > Python-Dev mailing list > Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 16:32, Ram Rachum wrote: Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? It's not needed. Is this *REALLY* relevant to this list? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence __

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Ram Rachum
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 o

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:32:17 +0200 Ram Rachum wrote: > Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? What would it do? (also, I think such questions are better asked on python-ideas) Regards Antoine. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:32:17 +0200 > Ram Rachum wrote: >> Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? > > What would it do? > (also, I think such questions are better asked on python-ideas) Or python-list. Chances are there's a way t

[Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Ram Rachum
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