[Edu-sig] Pre-PEP was: The fate of raw_input() in Python 3000

[Vern Ceder]

André,

This is indeed good news and for my part seems to be the best solution. 
Thanks for putting together the proposal and lobbying on our behalf.

See you at PyCon... :)

Cheers,
Vern Ceder

Andre Roberge wrote:
> My apologies to those that feel annoyed I reply to one of my own post
> (on December 22), without any other intervenor in between.
> 
> The pre-PEP has received some attention, including some positive one
> from GvR.  Those interested to see his initial response can see it
> here:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-December/005249.html
> 
> Then, on December 23, he wrote:
> ---------------
> BTW, can someone clean up and check in the proto-PEP and start working
> on an implementation or patch? Should be really simple. I'd like to
> see a patch for the refactoring tool (sandbox/2to3) as well.
> 
> --Guido
> ---------------
> 
> I take this as a very positive sign.  Unfortunately, there appear to
> have been no follow-up since.  Perhaps it is because it was so late in
> the year, and when everyone came back, the issue had been forgotten.
> In any event, I plan to go to Pycon 2007 and, if it hasn't been
> followed-up by then, do some lobbying on behalf of all those on
> edu-sig who have manifested their support for this issue in the past.
> 
> André
> 
> P.S.  Crunchy will be leading the way: I am planning to have support
> for input()/raw_input() in the next release, and the semantic will be
> that they will behave identically (i.e. return a string).  It is
> already implemented for the embedded interpreter in svn.
> 
> On 12/22/06, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all-
>>
>> I finally got the time to do a follow-up on python-3000 based on my original message on edu-sig.
>>
>> Those interested can look it up here:
>>  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-December/005242.html
>>
>> As I don't subscribe to the python-3000 list, I probably won't do any follow-up; we'll see what comes out of the discussion.
>>
>> André
>>
>>
>> On 9/13/06, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Hi-all,
>>>
>>> Having had a look at the discussion on the Python-3000 mailing list, I thought
>>> it was appropriate to write a draft PEP with the intent of eventually posting
>>> it on the Python 3000 list for "serious" discussion/future decision.
>>>
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
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