[Python-Dev] Re: Resurrecting PEP-472


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).
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?
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[Python-Dev] Re: Resurrecting PEP-472

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