From Thomas Wouters, on behalf of and with full support of the Python Steering
Council:
This discussion seems to have died down a little, but I still want to make a
few things clear:
Yes, this is a political decision. Very many decisions are political. The
existence of an open-source project
From Thomas Wouters, on behalf of and with full support of the Python Steering
Council:
I’ll post a separate reply about the merits of the decision, but we have to
talk about this post from Steven D’Aprano in particular.
Steven, this reply -- its tone and its message -- are completely
platforms, making this kind of code less portable and less
predictable.
In the end, the benefit of the PEP does not outweigh the cost of the potential
breakage, confusion, and unpredictability of the feature.
With our appreciation,
The Python Steering Council
After much deliberation, the Python Steering Council is happy to announce that
we have chosen to accept PEP 634, and its companion PEPs 635 and 636,
collectively known as the Pattern Matching PEPs. We acknowledge that Pattern
Matching is an extensive change to Python and that reaching consensus
Recently, a series of discussions on this mailing list resulted in behavior
that did not live up to the standards of the Python Community. The PSF Board of
Directors, Python Steering Council, and the PSF Conduct Working Group would
like to remind this community that our shared goal is to
