On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, at 14:25, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2014, at 01:55 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > > > >It's not a bad idea. (I believe others have proposed an red-black tree.) > > >Certainly, it requires a PEP and a few months of bikesheding, though. > > > > Generally, PEPs aren't necessary for simple or relatively uncontroversial > > additions to existing modules or the stdlib. > > I would have said that, too, several years ago, but I think we've been > requiring (or using anyway) PEPs for a lot more things now. OrderedDict > had a PEP for example. > This is probably a natural outcome of the rising popularity of Python in the last few years. Much more users, more core developers, more at stake... > > I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. > YMMV but IMHO this is a good thing. PEPs provide a single point of reference to a discussion that would otherwise be spread over multiple centi-threads (not that PEPs don't create centi-threads, but they outlive them in a way). Eli
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