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On 12 Oct 2013 09:32, "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
\>
\> On 12/10/2013 00:13, Victor Stinner wrote:
\>>
\>> Hi,
\>>
\>> What do you think of adding an optional identifier to a PEP to get a
\>> readable URL?
\>>
\>> Example:
\>> � � http://www.python.org/dev/peps/qualname/
\>> instead of
\>> � � http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0395/
\>>
\>> Other examples:
\>>
\>> 305: csv
\>> 450: statistics
\>> 3156: asyncio
\>>
\>> An identifier must only contain lower case letters (a-z), digits
\>> (0-9), dot (.) and underscore (\_). It should be short (max. 20
\>> characters)... and unique. Regex: ^\[a-z0-9.\_\]{1,20}$.
\>>
\>> For draft PEP, the identifier may change. If it's an issue (dead URL),
\>> we may allow multiple identifiers (ex: add also "tulip" for 3156), or
\>> only add an identifier to accepted PEPs.
\>>
\>> I don't know yet how it can be implemented at server side.
\>>
\>> Victor
\>>
\>
\> If it's easy to do why not?
\>�If it's difficult why bother, I find it easy enough to find stuff by searching directly on the PEP index?

Agreed, doesn't seem worth the hassle to me.

Cheers,
Nick.

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