Confused about pep 318

[Christopher T King]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/thread.html#45516
> was over a month earlier.

That thread reaches no consensus, other than, in his sole post in the 
thread, Guido stating "I would love to see an implementation of this 
idea."  Nothing about "this is going to be in 2.4a2, anybody vehemently 
opposed to it?"  Like I said, the go-ahead was given privately.

> In addition, the particular SF item for this
> http://www.python.org/sf/979728 wasn't exactly hidden.

Indeed; I'm surprised it isn't titled "Beware of the Leopard".