On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:13 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
> Leaving out the complication of needing a new sponsor, I would think the > best course of action would be to create a new PEP. I think keeping the > original rejected PEP is a net positive, and especially so if one of the > original authors isn't available. At the very least, you'd want to > remove their name from any updated version, and at that point it's > really a new PEP anyway (IMO). > I agree with Eric's logic: it's a new PEP at this point, and since it's a new PEP it will require a sponsor. -Brett > > As to the sponsor, I think there should be a new sponsor in either case: > a brand new PEP or resurrecting a rejected PEP. Basically the sponsor > acts as a hurdle to get things in front of the steering council, and > that hurdle shouldn't be bypassed just by resurrecting an old PEP. > > Eric > > On 8/27/2020 4:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On the Python-Ideas mailing list, there has been a long debate about > > resurrecting PEP 472, "Support for indexing with keyword arguments". > > > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0472/ > > > > One of the existing authors, Stefano Borini, is interested in updating > > the PEP with a new strategy that has some support (but not a consensus) > > on Python-Ideas, and removing from contention the previous strategies. > > > > The new strategy is to pass keyword arguments directly to keyword > > parameters in the `__getitem__` etc methods, as other functions and > > methods do. The previous, rejected, strategies involved various hacks > > such as overloading the single index parameter with a dict or a > > namedtuple, etc. > > > > Two complications: > > > > - the PEP is rejected, not deferred. > > > > - one of the previous co-authors, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde, seems to have > > dropped out of contact. > > > > Does Stefano need to get a sponsor and create a new PEP, or can he > > prepare a PR and ask for it to be re-opened? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3LMHDE2OXCFOVLGLRLYCTRSKEBNYRFFO/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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