From my point of view, the process of standardizing through a formal standards body is a tedious, verbose, laborious, bureaucratic and often contentious process.

I'd really like to know quantitatively what the benefits would be of running that gauntlet, as I'm not sure they would outweigh the costs.

On Fri, 2021-02-12 at 10:33 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:

What would it take to create an ANSI, ECMA and/or ISO standard for Python?

It seems to have really helped C.

It looks like Java isn't standardized, and it's done OK, though perhaps it was healthier in the past - before Oracle decided API's were ownable.

I think standardizing Python might be really good for controlling its growth and avoiding featuritis.

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