[Python-Dev] Policy on refactoring/clean up (original) (raw)

Jeroen Demeyer J.Demeyer at UGent.be
Tue Jun 26 07:43:32 EDT 2018

On 2018-06-26 13:11, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:

AFAICS, your PR is not a strict improvement

What does "strict improvement" even mean? Many changes are not strict improvements, but still useful to have.

Inada pointed me to YAGNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it) but I disagree with that premise: there is a large gray zone between "completely useless" and "really needed". My PR falls in that gap of "nice to have but we can do without it".

You may suggest it as a supplemental PR to PEP 580. Or even a part of it, but since the changes are controversial, better make the refactorings into separate commits so they can be rolled back separately if needed.

If those refactorings are rejected now, won't they be rejected as part of PEP 580 also?

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