What exactly is the bikeshed here? Naturally Python doesn't use the newest standards the second they are released because that would be chaos. So they need to consider when they use newer standards. In this case they found bugs and had a discussion that ended in everyone supporting adopting a newer standard.
What exactly do you feel is the "which color should the shed be" point of this discussion?
Leaving aside whether this is a bikeshed or not, I'm not at all surprised that a community that passed through the 2->3 project would subsequently be concerned about even the barest repeat of that.
morelisp|4 years ago
I thought it was extremely clear from my comment. "Will requiring IEEE 754 make Python less appealing?"
troutwine|4 years ago
tzot|4 years ago
> "The more 'it's-only-Python-if-it-has-X' restrictions we have, the less appealing we become."
We the Python language?