Micah Elliott wrote: > I also have this living as a wiki <http://tracos.org/codetag/wiki/Pep> > if people would like to add comments there. I might try to capture there > feedback from this group anyway. First try at a PEP -- thanks for any > feedback!
I think you somewhat misunderstood the purpose of the PEP process. This is meant primarily for enhancements to Python (the language and its library), and it is meant to save the PEP author from implementing unagreeable functionality - if the PEP is accepted, the PEP author is typically expected to implement the proposed functionality (in many cases, having a draft implementation is prerequisite to accepting it). Both elements seem to be missing your document: it does not propose changes to the Python language; instead, it proposes a specific way of writing comments (ie. something that is not relevant to the Python interpreter or libraries, only to the Python developer). Also, there is no indication that you would like to implement something for the PEP: what tool would you like to change in what specific way? If you want this as a PEP so that Python somehow "endorses" code tags (which appear to be independent from the programming language), I'm -1: Python has traditionally abstained from pushing unrelated technologies. Instead, it integrates with the technologies people find useful; in this spirit, I would rather like to see code tags become popular on their own merits, and *then* perhaps integrating support for it into IDLE could be considered. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
