rhettinger@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

+ Status + ====== + + The PEP is self rejected by the author due to the unprecedented + level of enmity it generated from developers.

Oh, there's precedent. I seem to recall Guido's PEP 259, "Omit printing newline after newline", getting a lot of flak. Plenty of negative feedback from a lot of other PEPs too. So don't be so hard on the poor PEP. :-) -- David Goodger