PEP scepticism

[Guido van Rossum]

m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:

> Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:
> > In article <9hj3bb$bdu$8 at newshost.accu.uu.nl>,
> > Martijn Faassen <m.faassen at vet.uu.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >>The somewhat mysterious way to get accepted to the dev mailing list
> >>at all is a hurdle all by itself.. Perhaps this document could help
> >>there too.
> 
> > It's not mysterious at all: Guido invites you (cadging an invite from
> > Guido is an option, of course).  But it doesn't take all that much to
> > get an invitation; I'm on the list, and I still have not contributed any
> > code to Python, and I've only submitted one formal PEP.
> 
> Well, when I wanted to know last year, I asked Gordon McMillan and he
> said the same thing but made it seem very mysterious. I wasn't in a hurry
> so I gave up on it; perhaps that was accomplishing the goal. :)

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