[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] new super redux (better late than never?)

Wed Mar 5 15:03:41 CET 2008

Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2008年3月5日, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>> (Bringing this from python-ideas, Guido is talking about PEP 3135)
>>> Ehhh! The PEP's "reference implementation" is useless and probably
>> doesn't even work. The actual implementation is completely different.
>> If you want to help, a rewrite of the PEP to match reality would be
>> most welcome!
>> Guido, I know that in this fight-for-reality some of the PEPs for Py3
> are not correct.
>> Which is the plan to handle this? Will the original authors fix them?
> And if not, will these PEP be marked as "Caution: non compliant with
> reality" or something?
>> PEPs are a great tool, one of the Python assets, and it's a pity that
> we may not trust them...

Some PEPs (252/253 come to mind) already carry such warnings. The 
wording in those two PEPs suggests that this warning was added by the 
PEP editors after the fact:
[Editor's note: the ideas described in this PEP have been incorporated 
 into Python. The PEP no longer accurately describes the implementation.]
In other cases we have gone back and fixed the PEP to match the 
implementation (e.g. PEP 343 was updated to reflect changes that 
happened prior to 2.5 release).
Cheers,
Nick.
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