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Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 23:43:53 CET 2015

On 10 Feb 2015 08:13, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 16:34, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 02/09/2015 01:28 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 16:06, Neil Girdhar wrote: > >> > >> The updated PEP 448 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/) is > >> implemented now based on some early work by Thomas Wouters (in 2008) and > >> Florian Hahn (2013) and recently completed by Joshua Landau and me. > >> > >> The issue tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue2292 has a working patch. > >> Would someone be able to review it? > > > > The PEP is not even accepted. > > I believe somebody (Guido?) commented "Why worry about accepting the PEP > when there's no working patch?" -- or > something to that effect. On the other hand, I'd rather not do detailed reviews of patches that won't be accepted. :)

It's more a matter of the PEP being acceptable in principle, but a reference implementation being needed to confirm feasibility and to iron out corner cases.

For example, the potential for arcane call arguments suggests the need for a PEP 8 addition saying "first standalone args, then iterable expansions, then mapping expansions", even though syntactically any order would now be permitted at call time.

Cheers, Nick.

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