[Python-Dev] New features

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > Actually, we don't often get patches for new features. Many new > features are implemented by core developers themselves. Right. That's not inconsistent with what I wrote, as long as would-be feature submitters realize what the standards for an acceptable feature patch

[Python-Dev] New features

2011-11-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:19:50 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > > Deprecated features are pretty much irrelevant to the height of the > bar for new features. The problem is that there are a limited number > of folks doing long term maintenance of the standard library, and an > essentially unli