On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > I still consider this is mostly a communication issue. If this change had > been properly written up, preferably in a PEP, including the reasoning for > it to get done, I think this whole discussion would not have been necessary.
Yes, I think we need to keep "topic of wider interest" in mind when deciding whether or not to write up a PEP, even if the change isn't particularly controversial amongst the core developers. We made a similar mistake with the zipfile and directory execution changes. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com