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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 11:48:41 CEST 2013

On 12 October 2013 01:53, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

t's easy to mix up PEP numbers. For example, Martin von Loewis wrote two major PEP related to Unicode: 383 and 393. These numbers are close, only one digit is different. It's worse when you discuss recent PEPs: PEP 445 or PEP 454? Oops, no it was the PEP 455.

I think that the real issue is that people expect others to remember numbers as easily as they do while writing emails, etc. If in email people refer to PEPs as PEP 302 (Import Hooks) or PEP 3156 (Tulip) or PEP 435 (Enum) etc, there would be a lot less issue.

We're all guilty of it, and context is often enough to clarify, but IMO this is more about thinking of your audience when writing.

Paul

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