On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
[...] Some of these strategies that you might find helpful (or not):
Oh right, and of course just after I hit send I realized I forgot one of my favorites! - come up with a real chunk of code from a real project that would benefit from the change being proposed, and show what it looks like before/after the feature is added. This can be incredibly persuasive *but* it's *super important* that the code be as real as possible. The ideal is for it to solve a *concrete* *real-world* problem that can be described in a few sentences, and be drawn from a real code base that faces that problem. One of the biggest challenges for maintainers is figuring out how Python is actually used in the real world, because we all have very little visibility outside our own little bubbles, so people really appreciate this -- but at the same time, python-ideas is absolutely awash with people coming up with weird hypothetical situations where their pet idea would be just the ticket, so anything that comes across as cherry-picked like that tends to be heavily discounted. Sure, there *are* situations where the superpower of breathing underwater can help you fight crime, but... http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-63-3/ http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-64-3/ -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org