[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium (original) (raw)

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 21:01:22 CET 2009

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I've checked draft (!) PEP 3003, "Python Language Moratorium", into SVN. As authors I've listed Jesse, Brett and myself.

On python-ideas the moratorium idea got fairly positive responses (more positive than I'd expected, in fact) but I'm bracing myself for fierce discussion here on python-dev. It's important to me that if if this is accepted it is a "rough consensus" decision (working code we already have plenty of :-), not something enforced by a vocal minority or an influential individual such as myself. If there's too much opposition I'll withdraw the PEP so as not to waste everybody's time with a fruitless discussion. The PEP tries to spell out some gray areas but I'm sure there will be others; that's life. Do note that the PEP proposes to be retroactive back to the 3.1 release, i.e. the "frozen" version of the language is the state in which it was released as 3.1. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

+1 - I'll work on some grammar kinks in my prose asap

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