On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> Who is responding or has responded? >>> Extreme Programmers, Python-Hardliner, Python-Evangelists, ... . >>> Presumably no core Python Programmers (wrting compiler and standard >>> library stuff) >> >> Ad hominem. > > For the record, I am the author of the statistics module in Python 3.4, and > Terry Reedy is the very active maintainer of IDLE. If I have missed anyone, > my apologies. So, yes, there are core developers here. > > (Although not any of the senior core devs, as far as I know.)
I don't know what the definition of "senior core dev" would be. Checking the Experts List [1] shows you and Terry both, as does the list of committers [2] (and it has me as well, although that's because I wear a PEP Editor hat, so I don't count as even a non-senior core dev). Is there an "inner circle" of people Guido trusts more than "just ordinary core devs"? I rather suspect not, but maybe I'm wrong. Hacking on CPython without core dev status is actually pretty easy. I've done it. (Added a "while ... as name:" syntax, just to see how hard it would be. Conclusion: It's not hard at all.) If anything, that's a _lower_ bar to clear than "idiomatic Python programmer", because anyone can hack on C code without understanding the goals and beauties of the Python language. So I'm really not sure what the original complaint was about, nor how to answer it. ChrisA [1] https://docs.python.org/devguide/experts.html#experts [2] https://hg.python.org/committers.txt -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
