-----Original Message----- From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim@zope.com] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:05 AM To: python-announce@python.org; Python list Subject: PEP Parade Quoting Guido's new "Parade of the PEPs" essay at http://www.python.org/doc/essays/pepparade.html """ To start off Developer's Day at the Python10 conference I gave a keynote ending in what I dubbed "the parade of the PEPs". It was a brief overview of all open PEPs, where I gave my highly personal and subjective opinion for each PEP. Later, I realized that this might have been of interest to other developers. I didn't take notes at the conference, so below is a different set of comments that I created from scratch during a single two-hour sitting on March 7, 2002. """ Since Guido's "highly personal and subjective opinions" are nevertheless destined to circumscribe every waking moment of your Python life, everyone interested in Python development should give it a good read. It's also linked to from the PEP Index page at SourceForge: http://python.sf.net/peps/ Note that Guido wants to keep 2.3 free of new core language features. You can deduce that from reading the essay, or-- like me --you can just believe it because it's true <wink>. There's a huge backlog of good ideas for improving the internals and libraries, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the focus remain there for 2.4 too.