[Python-Dev] PEP 455: TransformDict

[Nick Coghlan]

On 14 September 2013 12:44, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:00:18PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> Personally, if there's a bunch of push-back against just adding
>> TransformDict directly, why don't we make it provisional?  I thought that
>> was what provisional was for (meaning: we're going to add it, PyPI is not
>> really appropriate, there may be some API changes).
>
> Not according to PEP 411. It implies that only modules/packages can be
> provisional, not individual functions, and states that "most packages"
> are expected to be provisional. So either PEP 411 doesn't apply to
> TransformDict at all, or it applies by default. The PEP doesn't say.
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/
>
>
> Everything below the line is about PEP 411, not TransformDict. If you
> don't care about PEP 411, you can stop reading now.
>
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> Personally, I think it's a poor PEP. It doesn't document opposition to
> the idea, and if I recall the discussion at the time correctly, there
> was plenty of opposition.

Oops, meant to reply to this part, too.

PEP 411 is an Informational PEP, not a standards track PEP. It's there
to describe the policy, not to make the case for *having* the policy.

Cheers,
Nick.

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