[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I've checked draft (!) PEP 3003, "Python Language Moratorium", into
> SVN. As authors I've listed Jesse, Brett and myself.
> 
> On python-ideas the moratorium idea got fairly positive responses
> (more positive than I'd expected, in fact) but I'm bracing myself for
> fierce discussion here on python-dev. It's important to me that if if
> this is accepted it is a "rough consensus" decision (working code we
> already have plenty of :-), not something enforced by a vocal minority
> or an influential individual such as myself. If there's too much
> opposition I'll withdraw the PEP so as not to waste everybody's time
> with a fruitless discussion.
> 
> The PEP tries to spell out some gray areas but I'm sure there will be
> others; that's life. Do note that the PEP proposes to be *retroactive*
> back to the 3.1 release, i.e. the "frozen" version of the language is
> the state in which it was released as 3.1.

+1.

> This suspension of features is designed to allow non-CPython implementations
> to "catch up" to the core implementation of the language, help ease adoption
> of Python 3.x, and provide a more stable base for the community.

I'd also add "to allow users to catch up"... ;-)

One question:

There are currently number of patch waiting on the tracker for
additional Unicode feature support and it's also likely that we'll
want to upgrade to a more recent Unicode version within the
next few years.

How would such indirect changes be seen under the moratorium ?

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