[Python-Dev] Support keyword in PEP URL?

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sat Oct 12 03:20:58 CEST 2013


On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/10/12 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:
>>> What do you propose in cases like this? Should the keyword always refer
>>> to the same PEP it did in the past, even when that PEP is no longer as
>>> relevant given later PEPs? Or should the keyword reach a different,
>>> newer PEP if that newer PEP becomes a “more relevant” PEP for the
>>> keyword?
>> 
>> Heh, that was the same example I was going to use.  :)
>> 
>> Another question:  if the later PEP gets the appropriate name, what name
>> then gets applied to the older one(s)?
> 
> As I wrote in my first message, if changing identifier for draft PEP
> is an issue, an option is to only add a textual identifier to accepted
> PEPs.
> 
>> For than matter, what names would you give to the myriad unicode peps?
> 
> Let me try to name PEPs related to Unicode:
> 
> 100: unicode_integration
> 261: unicode_ucs4
> 277: windows_unicode_filenames (hum, I proposed a limit of 20
> characters, this name is 25 characters long)
> 383: surrogateescape
> 393: compact_unicode
> 414: u_prefix_py33
> 
> These names are just propositions. They should be discussed :-)

Perhaps we can have a PEP to decide the name of a PEP!

> 
> (they are probably much more PEPs related to Unicode :-))
> 
> Victor
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