From 40a8590b14d05df9782dae336c89169d9bcf7240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:06:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify numbering scheme a bit more. --- pep-0001.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0001.txt b/pep-0001.txt index 448ce9b6f..595805dd9 100644 --- a/pep-0001.txt +++ b/pep-0001.txt @@ -413,8 +413,12 @@ revision, with specific instructions. Once the PEP is ready for the repository, the PEP editor will: -* Assign a PEP number (almost always just the next available *lowest* - number, but sometimes it's a special/joke number, like 666 or 3141). +* Assign a PEP number (almost always just the next available number, + but sometimes it's a special/joke number, like 666 or 3141). + (Clarification: For Python 3, we used numbers in the 3000s for + Py3k-specific proposals. But now that all new features go into + Python 3 only, we're back to using numbers in the 100s again. + Remember that numbers below 100 are meta-PEPs.) * List the PEP in PEP 0 (in two places: the categorized list, and the numeric list).