On 21/12/2013 11:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:26:10 -0600, Brian Bruggeman wrote:
Is this something that would be pep-able?
I don't know. What is it? I'm sure your code is the most fabulous,
awesome and brilliant thing since Grace Hopper came up with FORmula
TRANslation back in the 1950s, but my browser has over eighty tabs open
at the moment, give me a reason why I ought to open one more.
I was under the impression that she was more associated with COBOL but
never mind.
https://gist.github.com/brianbruggeman/8061774
If you aren't willing or able to spend a sentence or three explaining
what your code does, what need it fulfils, and why it ought to be
included in Python, you're going to have real bad time trying to persuade
the hard-nosed, conservative core developers. Trust me, I know what I am
talking about, I am the author of a successful PEP:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0450/
and that was for something which already had at least two of the most
respected core developers' support before I even started. So before you
go to the effort of writing a PEP, how about you try to justify your
proposal here?
Nail struck firmly on head I reckon.
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