[Python-Dev] PEP for adding an sq_index slot so that any object, a or b, can be used in X[a:b] notation (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Feb 9 23:01:42 CET 2006

On 2/9/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 11:30 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> In the past, the protocol for aqcuiring a PEP number has been to ask > the PEP coordinators (Barry Warsaw and David Goodger) to assign one. I > believe that we could simplify this protocol to avoid necessary > involvement of the PEP coordinators; all that is needed is someone > with checkin privileges. I propose the following protocol: [omitted] In general, this is probably fine. Occasionally we reserve a PEP number for something special, or for a pre-request, but I think both are pretty rare. And because of svn and the commit messages we can at least catch those fairly quickly and fix them. Maybe we can add known reserved numbers to PEP 0 so they aren't taken accidentally. What I'm actually more concerned about is that we (really David) often review PEPs and reject first submissions on several grounds. I must say that David's done such a good job at keeping the quality of PEPs high that I'm leery of interfering with that. OTOH, perhaps those with commit privileges should be expected to produce high quality PEPs on the first draft. Maybe we can amend your rules to those people who both have commit privileges and have successfully submitted a PEP before. PEP virgins should go through the normal process.

Sounds reasonable to me. Then again I don't think I would ever attempt to get a PEP accepted without at least a single pass over by python-dev or c.l.py . But making it simpler definitely would be nice when you can already check in yourself.

-Brett

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