a comment about PEPs

[phil hunt]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:53:49 GMT, Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:
>> Who decides whether PEPs are approved/rejected? The BDFL?
>
>More or less.  From PEP 1:
>
>  Once the authors have completed a PEP, they must inform the PEP
>  editor that it is ready for review.  PEPs are reviewed by the BDFL
>  and his chosen consultants, who may accept or reject a PEP or send
>  it back to the author(s) for revision.
>
>Basically like any other language decision; Guido might listen to us,
>but the D in his name means he doesn't have to.

And of course, the fact that Python is open source keeps everyone
honest. If Guido pissed off significant numbers of people, they
would just fork the language. So he's not about to plan a migration
to a Microsoft-platform-only Python# :-)

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