[Python-Dev] bytes thoughts (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Fri Mar 17 19:38:34 CET 2006

"Christos Georgiou" <tzot at mediconsa.com> wrote:

[Christos] > These details should be considered in the PEP.

[Josiah] > They aren't considered because they are obvious to most (if not all) > sane people who use Python. I beg to disagree. I don't know whether you are Dutch or not, but most of

There's probably a bit of dutch in me, but likely not sufficient to alter my language intuitions.

the Python users aren't; one of the reason PEPs exist is to explain what should "be obvious at first" when one is Dutch ;-) Apart from joking, PEPs should be a record of beating/thinking the PEP subject to its death: "The PEP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions."

Considering your quote, I have thusfar not seen any opinion dissenting from what I stated as 'obvious' behavior. As I told Michael Chermside off-list: "Sure, great, clarify it. I wasn't saying anything in regards to whether it should or shouldn't [be clarified], just why it probably wasn't already."

Also considering that I lack SVN commit permission, it's not within my power to clarify the PEP.

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