[Python-Dev] PEP 414

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Mar 2 01:25:52 CET 2012


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On 03/01/2012 05:52 PM, Armin Ronacher wrote:
> 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 :-)

Several responses on the list *have* been offensive, not criticizing the
PEP on its own merits but on your (presumed) motives for introducing it.
 Such attacks are wildly off-base.

>> 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 :-)



Tres.
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