[Python-Dev] On the necessity of PEPs [was "collections.sortedtree"]

[Eli Bendersky]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, at 14:25, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Mar 26, 2014, at 01:55 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> >
> > >It's not a bad idea. (I believe others have proposed an red-black tree.)
> > >Certainly, it requires a PEP and a few months of bikesheding, though.
> >
> > Generally, PEPs aren't necessary for simple or relatively uncontroversial
> > additions to existing modules or the stdlib.
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> I would have said that, too, several years ago, but I think we've been
> requiring (or using anyway) PEPs for a lot more things now. OrderedDict
> had a PEP for example.
>

This is probably a natural outcome of the rising popularity of Python in
the last few years. Much more users, more core developers, more at stake...

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> I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
>

YMMV but IMHO this is a good thing. PEPs provide a single point of
reference to a discussion that would otherwise be spread over multiple
centi-threads (not that PEPs don't create centi-threads, but they outlive
them in a way).

Eli
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