<div dir="ltr">Jonathan,<div><br></div><div>This is the glory of open source projects -- if you have a great idea, you can simply do it:</div><div><br></div><div>- Start a document that describes Python's Core design principles</div><div>- Put it up somewhere (gitHub would be good) where others can contribute to it</div><div>- If it becomes a wonderful thing, then propose that it be published somewhere "official" -- as a meta-PEP or whatever.</div><div><br></div><div>(you can do something similar with a package that you may think should be in the stdlib, or a proposal that you might think should be a PEP, or...)</div><div><br></div><div>In short, you don't need approval for an idea ahead of time -- if you demonstrate its worth, then it may be included later. If not, then maybe it wasn't a great idea, or it is a great idea that can live on outside the official project.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:33 AM Jonathan Fine <<a href="mailto:jfine2358@gmail.com">jfine2358@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Guido van Rossum wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think this belongs in a personal blog, not on python-ideas and definitely not in a PEP.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't agree, but I will accept that judgement, as if Guido still had BDFL status.</div><div>-- </div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Christopher Barker, PhD<br><br> Python Language Consulting<br> - Teaching<br> - Scientific Software Development<br> - Desktop GUI and Web Development<br> - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython<br></div>