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On 10 Feb 2015 08:13, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin@python.org> wrote:
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\> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 16:34, Ethan Furman wrote:
\> > On 02/09/2015 01:28 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
\> > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 16:06, Neil Girdhar wrote:
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\> > >> The updated PEP 448 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/) is
\> > >> implemented now based on some early work by Thomas Wouters (in 2008) and
\> > >> Florian Hahn (2013) and recently completed by Joshua Landau and me.
\> > >>
\> > >> The issue tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue2292 has a working patch.
\> > >> Would someone be able to review it?
\> > >
\> > > The PEP is not even accepted.
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\> > I believe somebody (Guido?) commented "Why worry about accepting the PEP
\> > when there's no working patch?" -- or
\> > something to that effect.
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\> On the other hand, I'd rather not do detailed reviews of patches that
\> won't be accepted. :)

It's more a matter of the PEP being acceptable in principle, but a reference implementation being needed to confirm feasibility and to iron out corner cases.

For example, the potential for arcane call arguments suggests the need for a PEP 8 addition saying "first standalone args, then iterable expansions, then mapping expansions", even though syntactically any order would now be permitted at call time.

Cheers,
Nick.

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