[Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

[Jack Diederich]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> - After seeing Raymond's talk about monocle (search for it on PyPI) I
>> am getting excited again about PEP 380 (yield from, return values from
>> generators). Having read the PEP on the plane back home I didn't see
>> anything wrong with it, so it could just be accepted in its current
>> form. Implementation will still have to wait for Python 3.3 because of
>> the moratorium. (Although I wouldn't mind making an exception to get
>> it into 3.2.)
>
> I, like others, want PEP 380 to be in and done (it's exciting!).
> However, we knew going into the moratorium that it would negatively
> affect PEP 380 - as a co-author, it was one of the few things which
> made me second-guess the implementation of the moratorium. So; in this
> case I'd have to vote no, we knew going in it would do this.

I was/am pro PEP 380 and pro Moratorium.  We knew going in to the
moratorium that PEP 380 wouldn't be included and talked about it
extensively.  We should honor that now for the same reasons we talked
about then: declaring "no syntax changes" allows for a focus on the
stdlib.

-Jack