On 1 Feb, 01:18, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ANSI standards are owned by ANSI or perhaps the accrediting body. In any > case, electronic copies sell for $30. They cannot legally be accessed free > as for the docs at python.org.
Yes, you don't really want standardisation ANSI/ISO-style as the standards themselves are not freely distributable, although some people have kindly made drafts of various standards available in various places, probably against the licensing conditions. Other standards barely deserve the title because, despite there being some kind of consensus about their content, they are administered by industry groups who won't let you look without you either paying to join their club or accepting a bunch of conditions: not redistributing material from the texts is probably the mildest I can think of; I'd imagine that they'd probably have the other members hit you up for patent licences. Ultimately, this leaves the W3C as the only genuinely open formal standards body that I can think of immediately, but I think Python is somewhat peripheral for them, despite extensive usage of Python by various W3C people. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
