[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again) (original) (raw)

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Thu Apr 30 18:35:25 CEST 2009

On 04:07 pm, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Martin, if you're going to stick with the half-surrogate trick, would you mind adding a section to the PEP on "alternate encoding strategies", explaining why the NULL method was not selected? In the PEP process, it isn't my job to criticize competing proposals. Instead, proponents of competing proposals should write alternative PEPs, which then get criticized on their own. As the PEP author, I would have to collect the objections to the PEP in the PEP, which I did; I'm not convinced that I would have to also collect all alternative proposals that people come up with in the PEP (except when they are in fact amendments that I accept).

Fair enough. I have probably misunderstood the process. I dimly recalled reading some PEPs which addressed alternate approaches in this way and I thought it was part of the process.

Anyway, congratulations on getting the PEP accepted, good luck with the implementation. Thanks for addressing my question.

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