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

Willem Broekema metawilm at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 02:03:50 CET 2009

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

Willem, the rationale for this PEP is to give alternative implementations the chance to catch up with CPython.

Given your statement that CLPython is quite complete on the language level, but missing standard library features, how do you think the moratorium will help CLPython?

It would be great to have a pause in Python-the-language, so that CLPython might at the end of the moratorium finally be up to date with the latest 2.x and 3.x features.

Supporting standard libraries is a bigger challenge, as the ones written in C need rewriting. Whether or not there is a pause on that front does not matter too much to that situation.

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