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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Mar 27 03:27:51 CET 2014


On 03/26/2014 07:11 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson  wrote:
>>
>> 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).

Plus the PEP can help prevent multiple mega-threads as the same idea is revisited again and again and again...

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~Ethan~


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