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Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Oct 23 16:50:54 EDT 2021
On 10/23/21 6:42 AM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> On 2021-10-23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> The onus is on you to show that it needs to be more flexible.
>
> Is it though?
Yes.
> It seems to me that the onus is on you to show that
> this special case is special enough to be given its own unique
> existence.
It already has existence, so no further proof is needed.
> It's a bit surprising that the PEP doesn't discuss this
> decision at all.
In conversations as long as that one was, I'm not surprised this and maybe a couple other options didn't make it back to
the PEP. Nevertheless, I recall the decision to start simple, and expand later if needed.
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~Ethan~
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