If the authors are happy I'll accept it right away. (I vaguely recall there's another PEP that's ready for pronouncement -- but which one?)
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > Is there anything holding up PEP 515 at this point in terms of acceptance > or implementation? > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 at 11:56 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> All that sounds fine! >> >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> >> wrote: >> > Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: >> >> So should the preprocessing step just be s.replace('_', ''), or should >> >> it reject underscores that don't follow the rules from the PEP >> >> (perhaps augmented so they follow the spirit of the PEP and the letter >> >> of the IBM spec)? >> >> >> >> Honestly I think it's also fine if specifying this exactly is left out >> >> of the PEP, and handled by whoever adds this to Decimal. Having a PEP >> >> to work from for the language spec and core builtins (int(), float() >> >> complex()) is more important. >> > >> > I'd keep it simple for Decimal: Remove left and right whitespace (we're >> > already doing this), then remove underscores from the remaining string >> > (which must not contain any further whitespace), then use the IBM >> grammar. >> > >> > >> > We could add a clause to the PEP that only those strings that follow >> > the spirit of the PEP are guaranteed to be accepted in the future. >> > >> > >> > One reason for keeping it simple is that I would not like to slow down >> > string conversion, but thinking about two grammars is also a problem -- >> > part of the string conversion in libmpdec is modeled in ACL2, which >> > would be invalidated or at least complicated with two grammars. >> > >> > >> > >> > Stefan Krah >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Python-Dev mailing list >> > Python-Dev@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> > Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> >> >> >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org >> > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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