[Python-Dev] Support keyword in PEP URL? (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Oct 12 05:28:10 CEST 2013

Victor Stinner writes:

Quoting someone else:

For that matter, what names would you give to the myriad unicode peps?

For what value of "you"? ISTM that's important.

Let me try to name PEPs related to Unicode:

Of the ones you suggest, the only one that rings bells for me is "surrogateescape". If it's not mnemonic to me, it's not useful to me. (I.e., if python-dev can reach a workable consensus on nicknames, it doesn't really matter what I think. But if -- as I suspect -- many people will have different opinions about good nicknames for some PEPs, there won't be such a consensus.)

Of the several hundred (and rapidly growing) PEPs, I only ever care about a dozen at a time (and some of those are fixed for all time: PEP 0, PEP 1, PEP 8). I have my own private nicknames for those PEPs. (Oddly enough, PEP 0, PEP 1, and PEP 8 are "pep0", "pep1", and "pep8". ;-)

I think that more generally useful would be a PyPI package that grabs the PEP 0 list, parses it into a database, and adds a "nickname" column, plus a UI that allows assigning a personal nick to a PEP, lookup with fuzzy matching on nicks, and optionally sending the URL to the preferred browser. Sharing nicks and keywords (or tags, see below) would be a nice feature, too.

N.B. "Keyword" isn't the right term for what you want. I think "nickname" is better. E.g., "unicode" is a fine keyword, but it applies to many PEPs, even if restricted to only those PEPs that directly affect the Unicode implementation. An URL like http://www.python.org/peps/by-keyword/unicode should return a list of all of them IMHO. I think of "keywords" as tags that are formally assigned by the project, "tags" as an informal social networking device.

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