APPENDIX B

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Voting Guidelines

Author: Barry Warsaw

Abstract

This Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) outlines the python-dev voting guidelines. These guidelines serve to provide feedback or gauge the “wind direction” on a particular proposal, idea, or feature. They don’t have a binding force.

Rationale

When a new idea, feature, patch, and so on is floated in the Python community, either through a PEP or on the mailing lists (most likely on python-dev1), it is sometimes helpful to gauge the community’s general sentiment. Sometimes people just want to register their opinion of an idea. Sometimes the BDFL wants to take a straw poll. Whatever the reason, ...

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