[Python-Dev] PEP categories (was Re: PEP 393 review) (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Mon Aug 29 18:55:00 CEST 2011

Barry Warsaw, 29.08.2011 18:24:

On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

Also, this PEP makes me wonder if there should be a way to distinguish between language PEPs and (CPython) implementation PEPs, by adding a tag or using the PEP number ranges somehow. I've thought about this, and about a similar split between language changes and stdlib changes (i.e. new modules such as regex). Probably the best thing to do would be to allocate some 1000's to the different categories, like we did for the 3xxx Python 3k PEPS (now largely moot though).

These things tend to get somewhat clumsy over time, though. What about a stdlib change that only applies to CPython for some reason, e.g. because no other implementation currently has that module?

I think it's ok to make a coarse-grained distinction by numbers, but there should also be a way to tag PEPs textually.

Stefan

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