Why "from __future__" stinks; a counter-offer

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "A" == Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> writes:

  A> In article <slrn9bcg72.9q8.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl>, Remco
  A> Gerlich <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote:
  >> John W. Baxter <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> wrote in
  >> comp.lang.python:
  >>>
  >>> For the future, the time to complain about PEP contents is when
  >>> the PEP is posted, not after it has been posted, discussed,
  >>> implemented, and the result distributed.
  >>
  >> And the place to complain is the Python-DEV list, which is not
  >> public, although everyone can post to it and everyone can read it
  >> using some archives...

  A> Officially, complaints need only be posted to c.l.py.  It's not
  A> clear to me at this point what the True Practice is, but sending
  A> e-mail to the PEP champion is supposed to work best of all.  (Not
  A> all PEP creators are on python-dev.)

Discussion on comp.lang.python is fine, although it would usually help
to cc the PEP author.  If there are legitimate complaints posted to
c.l.py and the PEP author ignores them, I expect someone will cry
foul.  Tim reads c.l.py as devotedly as anyone.  Barry and I try to
keep up, too.

Jeremy