[Python-Dev] PEP 455: TransformDict (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 14 18:27:32 CEST 2013

On 14 September 2013 12:44, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:00:18PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

Personally, if there's a bunch of push-back against just adding TransformDict directly, why don't we make it provisional? I thought that was what provisional was for (meaning: we're going to add it, PyPI is not really appropriate, there may be some API changes). Not according to PEP 411. It implies that only modules/packages can be provisional, not individual functions, and states that "most packages" are expected to be provisional. So either PEP 411 doesn't apply to TransformDict at all, or it applies by default. The PEP doesn't say. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/ Everything below the line is about PEP 411, not TransformDict. If you don't care about PEP 411, you can stop reading now. ========================== Personally, I think it's a poor PEP. It doesn't document opposition to the idea, and if I recall the discussion at the time correctly, there was plenty of opposition.

Oops, meant to reply to this part, too.

PEP 411 is an Informational PEP, not a standards track PEP. It's there to describe the policy, not to make the case for having the policy.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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