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Author r.david.murray
Recipients albertogomcas, docs@python, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2017-08-09.18:14:33
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I agree.  The normal python convention is that an immutable object returns the new value when an operation "changes" it, while a mutable object returns None.  It seems like replace and rename should follow this convention (and that it would also be convenient).
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