[Python-Dev] Support keyword in PEP URL?

[Guido van Rossum]

Hm. I think at that scale giving every PEP a unique name and remembering
those names is just as hard. And the issue with different versions or
variants of the same idea is real. I think it's not worth the effort.


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2013/10/12 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> > What's the use case? I just use Google search if I don't recall the PEP
> > number.
>
> The final goal would be to identify PEPs using a textual identifier
> instead of a number identifier.
>
> We now have 206 PEPs (341 if you count also deferred and rejected
> PEPs). It's not easy to remember all these PEP numbers. Google should
> not needed to find a PEP, it's identifier should be enough to write
> manually the URL. The problem is to remember the numerical identifier.
>
> It's easy to mix up PEP numbers. For example, Martin von Loewis wrote
> two major PEP related to Unicode: 383 and 393. These numbers are
> close, only one digit is different. It's worse when you discuss recent
> PEPs: PEP 445 or PEP 454? Oops, no it was the PEP 455.
>
> Victor
>



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