[Python-Dev] PEP 414

Thu Mar 1 23:52:56 CET 2012

Hi,
On 3/1/12 10:38 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> Sorry if I sounded like 'attacking' you. I certainly had no such
> intention, as I believe nobody on this list.
Sorry if I sound cranky but I got that impression from the responses
here (which are greatly different from the responses I got on other
communication channels and by peers). You were just the unlucky mail I
responded to :-)
> But if you'd just stuck to the point, without touching very 
> controversial topics of what version of python is a good choice 
> and what is a bad, with full review of all porting scenarios with 
> well-thought set of benchmarks, nobody would ever call your PEP 
> "polemic".
I tried my best but obviously it was not good enough to please
everybody. In all honesty I did not expect that such a small change
would spawn such a great discussion. After all what we're discussing
here is the introduction of one letter to literals :-)
Regards,
Armin