On 13Sep2020 20:51, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:12 PM Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: >> As a concrete example, for __length_hint__ and operator.length_hint, >> I >> wish that in addition to saying "New in version 3.4", it also said >> "specified by PEP424 [link]", since I had to go find that with a search >> engine to understand the rationale. [...] >A downside of linking to the PEP is that sometimes the PEP has an >outdated >version of an API. For example asyncio has evolved quite a bit since PEP >3156 (some stuff in the PEP turned out not so hot), and I'm sure that's not >the only case. But all in all I like the idea of linking to the PEP from >the "versionadded" or "versionchanged" note.
Happy to use the term "originally specified by PEP424 [link]" :-) I'll make some PRs. How to submit? Here, or a BPO or something? Cheers, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HO25HHHUBKETJYXWQ2Y7JTANALC6SRBS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
