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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 14:15, Jerry Hill wrote:
> Personally, the only PEPs I've used as reference material as PEP 8
> (the Python Style Guide), and PEP 249 (the Python Database API
> Specification v2.0).  If I recall correctly, one of the database
> adapters I used basically said that they were PEP 249 compliant, and
> didn't have much documentation beyond that.

Maybe there should be documentation for PEP 249 and other such "API
Specifications" in the main documentation tree, in the same way that
.NET documents interfaces.