[Python-Dev] PEP 269 versus 283.

[Guido van Rossum]

> 	I was looking over some of the PEP's and I saw that 269 was
> considered dead according to PEP 283.  This is kind of odd because I was
> planning to have an implementation by the end of the week.

Well, but you could've told me! :-)

I'll gladly revive it.

> This is subject to the constraints of reality; I am taking a
> whopping huge vacation starting this next weekend.  It is either
> going be ready for python-dev to play with this week or in the
> middle of next month.

Are you sure it's safe to expect your interest in this subject to
extend beyond the month of August? :-)

> 	My posts to the parser-sig are trying to be deferential to the
> charter of the SIG (starting w/requirements for a general purpose parser
> generator, not implementation of PEP 269).
> 	I am certainly going to try to wrangle the parser-sig onwards, but
> a pgen module is way overdue.

Great!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)