[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines

[Barry A. Warsaw]

It has been a while since I posted a copy of PEP 1 to the mailing lists and newsgroups.

Thanks for giving me this opportunity. There is a tiny detail that bothers me:

The format of the author entry should be
    address@dom.ain (Random J. User)
if the email address is included, and just
    Random J. User
if the address is not given.

This makes me jump fifteen years behind (or so, I do not remember times), at the time of the great push so the Internet prefers:

Random J. User address@dom.ain

It is more reasonable to always give the real name, optionally followed by an email, that to consider that the real name is a mere comment for the email address. Oh, I know some hackers who praise themselves as login names or dream having positronic brains :-), but most of us are humans before anything else!

Could the PEP be reformulated, at least, for leaving the choice opened?