[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: "Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning"

Sat Jul 30 14:57:47 CEST 2011

Hi Sandro,
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:58, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> For those implementing PEP 302円 importer objects:
>> the '\' should be removed, right?

No. Philip used backslashes to prevent the HTML conversion to transform
each and every instance of “PEP \d+” to a link, which gets annoying
after the few first hundred times. (It was discussed a few months ago
probably on web-sig or python-dev for PEP 333 or 3333, if memory serves.)
Cheers