[Python-Dev] PEP categories (was Re: PEP 393 review)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:38:23 +0200
Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 18:24, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> >>Also, this PEP makes me wonder if there should be a way to distinguish
> >>between language PEPs and (CPython) implementation PEPs, by adding a
> >>tag or using the PEP number ranges somehow.
> >
> > I've thought about this, and about a similar split between language changes
> > and stdlib changes (i.e. new modules such as regex).  Probably the best thing
> > to do would be to allocate some 1000's to the different categories, like we
> > did for the 3xxx Python 3k PEPS (now largely moot though).
> 
> Allocating 1000's seems sensible enough to me.
> 
> And yes, the division between recents 3x and non-3x PEPs seems quite arbitrary.

I like the 3k numbers myself :))