[Python-Dev] Addressing Outstanding PEPs

Wed Apr 26 18:49:13 CEST 2006

At 11:55 PM 4/25/2006 -0700, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> S 243 Module Repository Upload Mechanism Reifschneider

This one needs to be withdrawn or updated - it totally doesn't match the 
implementation in Python 2.5.
> S 302 New Import Hooks JvR, Moore

Unless somebody loans me the time machine, I won't be able to finish all of 
PEP 302's remaining items before the next alpha. Some, like the idea of 
moving the built-in logic to sys.meta_path, can't be done until Py3K 
without having adverse impact on deployed software.
> S 334 Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration Evans

IIRC, this one's use cases can be met by using a coroutine trampoline as 
described in PEP 342.
> S 345 Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 Jones

This one should not be accepted in its current state; too much 
specification of syntax, too little of semantics. And the specifications 
that *are* there, are often wrong. For example, the strict version syntax 
wouldn't even support *Python's own* version numbering scheme, let alone 
the many package versioning schemes in actual use.