After perusing David Ascher's proposal, several versions of his patches, and hundreds of email exchanged on this subject (almost all of this dated April or May of 1998), I've produced a reasonably semblance of PEP 207. Get it from CVS or here on the web: http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0207.html I'd like to hear your comments, praise, and criticisms! The PEP still needs work; in particular, the minority point of view back then (that comparisons should return only Boolean results) is not adequately represented (but I *did* work in a reference to tabnanny, to ensure Tim's support :-). I'd like to work on a patch next, but I think there will be interference with Neil's coercion patch. I'm not sure how to resolve that yet; maybe I'll just wait until Neil's coercion patch is checked in. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)