<html><body>On 11 Mar, 10:32 pm, pmaupin@gmail.com wrote:<br /><br />>If this seems useful to others,  I could try to start a PEP on how the<br />>process would work (but since I'm fairly new, it would be great if<br />>someone could help out a bit by validating my verbiage against some of<br />>the process requirements).<br /><br />Isn't this PEP 297?<br /><br />This does raise an interesting question, though, since I'm about to get into PEP authorship myself.  Have I missed an official way to propose alternatives or resurrect a languishing PEP?  I'd like very much to propose to obsolete PEP 355 with twisted's FilePath object that I've previously discussed, but ... does that mean adding text to 355?  writing a new PEP and referencing it?<br /><br />Also, the language/library evolution PEP I would like to write is basically an expanded version of PEP 5, but that is apparently moribund (and "not followed", according to MvL).<br /><br />Above all, how can I help to motivate timely yea-or-nay decisions from the BDFL or "his chosen consultants"?  PEP 1 seems to defer all of these questions to emailing the PEP editor; is that really the best way to go?<br /></body></html>