Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:messages': 0.09; 'ahead!': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'discussion': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'features,': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'probably': 0.32; 'something': 0.35; 'changing': 0.37; 'step': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'took': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'details': 0.65; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'subject:location': 0.84; 'carlos': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Jan Reedy Subject: Re: Python error codes and messages location Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:52:42 -0400 References: , <20130527061154.GA3301@cskk.homeip.net>, , , <51a35b92$0$30002$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 8 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1369677166 news.xs4all.nl 15890 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45739 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:46214 On 5/27/2013 12:54 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote: > I think PEP 3151 is a step ahead! That's almost exactly what I was looking for. Why did it take so long to have that implemented? Since this PEP involved changing existing features, rather than adding something mew, it probably took moe time and discussion to get consensus on details of the change.