On Wed., 26 Jun. 2019, 4:14 pm Elias Zamaria, <mikez...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick Coghlan, I'm thinking about what you said, over a year ago, about
> finding a new champion for PEP 467. I think it would be a privilege to work
> on something like that, which may be used by millions of people over a
> period of years or decades.
>
> However, I have decided that I no longer have the time or interest.
>
> This PEP has been open but delayed for years. It was originally written in
> 2014 (apparently with the expectation that it would be included in Python
> 3.5). My initial attempt to implement it was in 2016. In 2018, Guido said
> "It's too late for 3.7 period, but there's no reason it can't be considered
> for 3.8.", but now 3.8 is already in beta.
>
> I didn't realize that this would go on for so long. I was working on a
> personal project, and at one point I was wishing for something like the
> proposed iterator methods. I thought the details were already decided and I
> just had to code the thing, which would take a few weeks or maybe a few
> months at most. I did not realize what I was getting myself into.
>

Thank you for your efforts, Elias!

And yeah, the cases where we aren't actually sure what we want to do, and
the status quo is merely more irritating than it could be rather than
outright broken, are tough - it's all too easy for us to go "I'll think
about that some more when I'm less busy", and before we know it a couple of
years have gone by.

Cheers,
Nick.


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