On Apr 23, 5:09 pm, Daniel Kluev <dan.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Disc Magnet <discmag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is PEP necessary to add a new package to the standard library? > > *skip* > > Don't forget that Python is not limited to CPython. Other > implementations need these PEPs to provide compliant packages. > While its not that important for pure-python modules, anything tied to > C-API better be documented, or it becomes a nightmare to keep > non-CPython version having identical interface. >
Unit tests actually serve this purpose much better than do PEPs. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list