[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 09:54, François Pinard wrote:
> [Barry Warsaw]
> 
> > > If my feeling is right, then the PEP should clearly explicit this
> > > goal [of pushing `$' forward], it will make the PEP stronger.
> 
> > I will neither confirm nor deny whether the PSU is bankrolling the PEP
> > 292 initiative, nor the actual existence of any 527 organization
> > claiming to be called the "PSU", nor whether if they did exist, they
> > were or weren't acting in coordination with the campaign organizations
> > of any 2004 US presidential nominee.
> 
> Nice joking.  Still, yet, and nevertheless, I think making the PEP
> closer to the truth might make it stronger.  It might also repair a bit
> the feeling that the PEP process is sometimes mildly lacking (the @-PEP
> having been ratehr publicised as an example of this, recently).

Um, PEP 318 has nothing to do with this, and I think the PEP 292 process
has been fairly accurate, disagreements about interface
notwithstanding.  Maybe $'s make sense for Python 3000, but that was
never my goal, explicit or subversive, for PEP 292.

-Barry

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