[Python-ideas] Ideas for improving the struct module

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Some of these strategies that you might find helpful (or not):

Oh right, and of course just after I hit send I realized I forgot one
of my favorites!

- come up with a real chunk of code from a real project that would
benefit from the change being proposed, and show what it looks like
before/after the feature is added. This can be incredibly persuasive
*but* it's *super important* that the code be as real as possible. The
ideal is for it to solve a *concrete* *real-world* problem that can be
described in a few sentences, and be drawn from a real code base that
faces that problem. One of the biggest challenges for maintainers is
figuring out how Python is actually used in the real world, because we
all have very little visibility outside our own little bubbles, so
people really appreciate this -- but at the same time, python-ideas is
absolutely awash with people coming up with weird hypothetical
situations where their pet idea would be just the ticket, so anything
that comes across as cherry-picked like that tends to be heavily
discounted. Sure, there *are* situations where the superpower of
breathing underwater can help you fight crime, but...
  http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-63-3/
  http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-6/page-64-3/

-n

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Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org