Where/how to propose an addition to a standard module?

[pruebauno at latinmail.com]

On Oct 10, 3:10 pm, Joe Strout <j... at strout.net> wrote:
> I would like to propose a new method for the string.Template class.
> What's the proper procedure for doing this?  I've joined the python-
> ideas list, but that seems to be only for proposed language changes,
> and my idea doesn't require any change to the language at all.
>
>  From <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/>, it sounds like the
> PEP process is appropriate here, though other PEPs (like <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3001/
>  > make it sound as though these are meant for proposals for "Python
> 3000", which is not necessarily my intent.
>
> Here's a brief sketch of my proposal, in case it helps:
>
> Add a "match" function to string.Template, which takes a text string
> as a parameter.  If this text string can be matched to the template,
> by substituting some portion of the given string for each field of the
> template, then .match returns a dictionary, where each key is a field
> name and the value is the corresponding text from the input.  If the
> text string cannot be matched to the template, then .match returns None.
>
> I understand that if I'm to write a PEP, I'll need to flesh this out
> considerably as per PEP 0001.  But that document also suggests first
> discussing it here.  I'm still a newbie (or actually, oldbie-turned-
> nonbie-turned-newbie-again), so I could use some advice.  What's the
> next step in advocating for this idea?
>
> Thanks,
> - Joe

Whenever I needed such functionality I used the re module. The benefit
is that it uses unix style regular expression syntax and an egrep/awk/
perl/ruby user can understand it. You should show a few examples where
your proposal looks better than just using RE.