Pre-PEP Proposal: Codetags

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Micah Elliott wrote:
> I also have this living as a wiki <http://tracos.org/codetag/wiki/Pep>
> if people would like to add comments there. I might try to capture there
> feedback from this group anyway. First try at a PEP -- thanks for any
> feedback!

I think you somewhat misunderstood the purpose of the PEP process.
This is meant primarily for enhancements to Python (the language
and its library), and it is meant to save the PEP author from
implementing unagreeable functionality - if the PEP is accepted,
the PEP author is typically expected to implement the proposed
functionality (in many cases, having a draft implementation is
prerequisite to accepting it).

Both elements seem to be missing your document: it does not propose
changes to the Python language; instead, it proposes a specific
way of writing comments (ie. something that is not relevant to the
Python interpreter or libraries, only to the Python developer).
Also, there is no indication that you would like to implement
something for the PEP: what tool would you like to change in what
specific way?

If you want this as a PEP so that Python somehow "endorses" code
tags (which appear to be independent from the programming language),
I'm -1: Python has traditionally abstained from pushing unrelated
technologies. Instead, it integrates with the technologies people
find useful; in this spirit, I would rather like to see code tags
become popular on their own merits, and *then* perhaps integrating
support for it into IDLE could be considered.

Regards,
Martin