[Python-Dev] Resurrecting PEP-472

2020-08-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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 ha

[Python-Dev] Re: Resurrecting PEP-472

2020-08-27 Thread Eric V. Smith
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 the

[Python-Dev] Re: Resurrecting PEP-472

2020-08-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:13 AM Eric V. Smith 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 i

[Python-Dev] Re: Resurrecting PEP-472

2020-08-27 Thread Joseph Martinot-Lagarde
Hi, I'm Joseph, the co-author of PEP 472. You can remove the second complication ;) You can even remove my name if it simplifies things, Stefano did all of the work anyway. I'm also following the discussion on python-ideas and I like the way it seem to go with "standard" kwargs. It didn't occur