[Python-ideas] Add "default" kwarg to list.pop()

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> - I'm not volunteering to do the work (I don't know enough C to write
>   a patch). Unless somebody has a patch, we can't expect the core devs
>   who aren't interested in this feature to write it.
>
> (Hence, status quo wins a stalemate.)
>

Well, it would be frustrating to have a feature accepted but not
implemented, but the steps are separate.

And it wouldn't have to be a core dev that implements it -- anyone with the
C chops (not me :-) ) could do it.

As an example, a good chunk of PEP 485 was implemented by someone else (I
wrote the first prototype, but it was not complete), who I'm pretty sure is
not a core dev.

A core dev has to actually merge it, of course, and that is a bottleneck,
but not a show stopper.

-CHB

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