http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fcf8ecbcf953 changeset: 4025:fcf8ecbcf953 user: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> date: Sun Jan 29 16:22:32 2012 +1000 summary: Guido has rejected PEP 408 files: pep-0408.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0408.txt b/pep-0408.txt --- a/pep-0408.txt +++ b/pep-0408.txt @@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>, Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> -Status: Draft +Status: Rejected Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 2012-01-07 Python-Version: 3.3 Post-History: 2012-01-27 +Resolution: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115962.html Abstract @@ -27,6 +28,25 @@ or to the stability of its API, which may change for the next release. +PEP Rejection +============= + +Based on his experience with a similar "labs" namespace in Google App Engine, +Guido has rejected this PEP [3] in favour of the simpler alternative of +explicitly marking provisional modules as such in their documentation. + +If a module is otherwise considered suitable for standard library inclusion, +but some concerns remain regarding maintainability or certain API details, +then the module can be accepted on a provisional basis. While it is considered +an unlikely outcome, such modules *may* be removed from the standard library +without a deprecation period if the lingering concerns prove well-founded. + +As part of the same announcement, Guido explicitly accepted Matthew +Barnett's 'regex' module [4] as a provisional addition to the standard +library for Python 3.3 (using the 'regex' name, rather than as a drop-in +replacement for the existing 're' module). + + Proposal - the __preview__ package ================================== @@ -275,6 +295,11 @@ .. [#] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-August/011278.html +.. [#] Guido's decision: + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115962.html + +.. [#] Proposal for inclusion of regex: http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 + Copyright ========= -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps