[Python-ideas] Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla at ...> writes:
>> Isn't this the same as saying it is time to produce an industry standard 
>> (as in ISO, ECMA, ANSI, IEEE) for the Python language?
> 
> If we had plenty of workforce available it might be an idea.
> But we have not, and fixing bugs and making improvements is a much better use of
> volunteer time than language lawyering, IMO.
> 
>> Except for Java, only standardized 
>> languages tend to be considered for large projects.
> 
> The "except for Java" statement makes me think that standardization isn't a real
> criterion here. Stability may be, however.

I know of a number of large projects that are quite happy to make
extensive use of Python. They tend to standardise on older versions
(more precisely, versions that were current when the project started),
but they use it.

Cheers,
Nick.

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