[Python-ideas] clear() method for lists

[Georg Brandl]

Am 05.02.2010 23:06, schrieb Brett Cannon:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 13:59, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
> <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Brett Cannon
>     <brett at python.org
>     <mailto:brett at python.org>> wrote:
>     > Which reminds me, how do we want to handle ideas that come up
>     during hte
>     > moratorium? Do we simply want to force them to be brought up again
>     when 3.3
>     > development opens up, or should we settle them now and require
>     they have a
>     > PEP or bug marked for 3.3? The former risks a thundering herd of
>     idea but it
>     > does make sure only serious ideas get brought up as someone has to
>     remember
>     > to mention it again in at least a year.
> 
>     I don't think we need to settle on a single process for this. If
>     someone cares enough to write a PEP or file a bug let them do it. If
>     they don't but remember when the moratorium ends, we can't stop them.
> 
>     I suppose a new tracker category for this would be fine to add. If
>     someone actually goes through the efforts of writing a PEP falling in
>     this category we can add a new PEP status too.
> 
> 
> For issues it's probably enough to either mark them against Python 3.3
> or add a Moratorium keyword and simply not set their version in case the
> moratorium goes past 3.3. As for PEPs, we can mark their targeted
> version as 'Moratorium' or something.

+1 -- I've created http://bugs.python.org/keyword10 for the eventuality.

Georg

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