Leaving out the complication of needing a new sponsor, I would think the
best course of action would be to create a new PEP. I think keeping the
original rejected PEP is a net positive, and especially so if one of the
original authors isn't available. At the very least, you'd want to
remove their name from any updated version, and at that point it's
really a new PEP anyway (IMO).
I agree with Eric's logic: it's a new PEP at this point, and since it's a new PEP it will require a sponsor.
-Brett
As to the sponsor, I think there should be a new sponsor in either case:
a brand new PEP or resurrecting a rejected PEP. Basically the sponsor
acts as a hurdle to get things in front of the steering council, and
that hurdle shouldn't be bypassed just by resurrecting an old PEP.
Eric
On 8/27/2020 4:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On the Python-Ideas mailing list, there has been a long debate about
> resurrecting PEP 472, "Support for indexing with keyword arguments".
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0472/
>
> One of the existing authors, Stefano Borini, is interested in updating
> the PEP with a new strategy that has some support (but not a consensus)
> on Python-Ideas, and removing from contention the previous strategies.
>
> The new strategy is to pass keyword arguments directly to keyword
> parameters in the `__getitem__` etc methods, as other functions and
> methods do. The previous, rejected, strategies involved various hacks
> such as overloading the single index parameter with a dict or a
> namedtuple, etc.
>
> Two complications:
>
> - the PEP is rejected, not deferred.
>
> - one of the previous co-authors, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde, seems to have
> dropped out of contact.
>
> Does Stefano need to get a sponsor and create a new PEP, or can he
> prepare a PR and ask for it to be re-opened?
>
>
>
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