Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

[John]

> Mark, would you give it a review this month?

Apologies; my holiday-break free time was nobbled from unexpected quarters. I 
can't promise to find time this month, but I can promise to try. I did at least 
skim through the PR, and while there are still likely some iterations needed 
I'm satisfied that this is technically feasible.

But I'm afraid that's the easy part. If this is to go in, the other problem we 
still have to solve is achieving some consensus among the core developers that 
this is worth doing. Right now, judging by comments on this issue, I think I'm 
the only core dev who thinks this is a good idea; others are lukewarm at best, 
and I'm not willing to unilaterally approve and merge these changes without 
something closer to a consensus. There are a couple of ways forward here:

- Post the proposal on python-ideas to get wider visibility and feedback. If 
everyone agrees this is a great idea (from experience, this seems an unlikely 
outcome), then we can go ahead and merge. Otherwise we'd likely need a PEP to 
move forward.

- Bypass the python-ideas step, write the PEP, discuss in the appropriate 
forums, and then submit to the SC for approval / rejection.

- Convince Eric Smith. :-) With apologies to Eric for singling him out: Eric 
could reasonably be described as the steward/maintainer of the formatting 
machinery, so if he's persuaded, that's good enough for me.

The fact that you've already created a working implementation so that people 
can experiment is a bonus when it comes to trying to sell this to others.

I don't have the bandwidth to write a PEP, but I would be happy to act as PEP 
sponsor.

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