[Python-3000] pre-PEP: Process for reviewing/improving stdlibmodules in 3.0

[Nick Coghlan]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message 
> news:ca471dc20604032029u475e8e7an2b15764d1ccd008e at mail.gmail.com...
>> I didn't see any comments on this PEP.
> 
> For me, it is pretty clear and sensible, hence not much to say.
> Plus I expected others to says whatever was needed ;-).
> 
>> I'm not sure that the order in which the
>> steps are to be carried out is all that important, nor that it's
>> necessary to do this in the same order for all modules,
> 
> Such thoughts had occurred to me, but I don't think of anything specific to 
> add.  I read the steps as strong guidelines rather than a straightjacket. 
> I imagine refinements will grow out of experience.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. . . (come one, come all, come see a 
live demonstration of the bystander effect in action!)

> This is the main thing that caught my attention since I did not know that 
> you had made a decision, which, obviously now, you haven't.  So I would 
> break that sentence into two:
> 
> There are proposals for a "great stdlib renaming" introducing a hierarchic 
> library
> namespace.  That possibility aside, some module's names are known ...
> 
> And add PEP reference if and when there is a renaming PEP.

This wording sounds much better to me, too.

Cheers,
Nick.

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