PEP 1 organizes the PEPs by meta-catagory and numerically. This is merely another list, organized by topic. This index will grow as more topics are included and more PEPs show up in PEP 1.
The official list is here. The numerical index is included after the topical index, along with a mark indicating if a PEP has already been placed under at least one topic.
The idea is that a PEP can be found in more that one topic, which is sometimes the case. For the standards track proposals this is particularly true. Topics may include specific language features, in which case a PEP could be found under a dozen ore more different topics.
Non-feature/non-subject topics are first, followed by feature and subject topics in alphabetical order. Within each topic the PEPs are sub-ordered by category and then numerically. The category key is at the bottom of this page.
Index by Topic:
cat num title owner --- --- ----- ----- General Core Python Development Standards PEPs ---------------------------------------------- P 1 PEP Purpose and Guidelines Warsaw, Hylton, Goodger P 2 Procedure for Adding New Modules Faassen P 4 Deprecation of Standard Modules von Löwis P 5 Guidelines for Language Evolution Prescod P 9 Sample Plaintext PEP Template Warsaw P 10 Voting Guidelines Warsaw P 11 Removing support for little used platforms von Löwis P 12 Sample reStructuredText PEP Template Goodger, Warsaw P 387 Backwards Compatibility Policy Peterson I 20 The Zen of Python Peters I 42 Feature Requests Hylton Python Standard Library Development Standards PEPs -------------------------------------------------- P 8 Style Guide for Python Code GvR, Warsaw I 257 Docstring Conventions Goodger, GvR CPython Development Specific PEPs --------------------------------- P 7 Style Guide for C Code GvR CPython Release PEPs -------------------- P 6 Bug Fix Releases Aahz, Baxter I 101 Doing Python Releases 101 Warsaw, GvR I 360 Externally Maintained Packages Cannon I 373 Python 2.7 Release Schedule Peterson I 375 Python 3.1 Release Schedule Peterson I 392 Python 3.2 Release Schedule Brandl I 398 Python 3.3 Release Schedule Brandl IF 160 Python 1.6 Release Schedule Drake IF 200 Python 2.0 Release Schedule Hylton IF 226 Python 2.1 Release Schedule Hylton IF 251 Python 2.2 Release Schedule Warsaw, GvR IF 283 Python 2.3 Release Schedule GvR IF 320 Python 2.4 Release Schedule Warsaw, Hettinger, Baxter IF 356 Python 2.5 Release Schedule Norwitz, GvR, Baxter IF 361 Python 2.6 and 3.0 Release Schedule Norwitz, Warsaw Python Core Infrastructure PEPs ------------------------------- P 374 Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project Cannon, Turnbull, Vassalotti, Warsaw, Ochtman P 385 Migrating from Subversion to Mercurial Ochtman, Pitrou, Brandl PF 347 Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion von Löwis Python 2 PEPs ------------- IF 291 Backward Compatibility for the Python 2 Standard ... Norwitz Py3k PEPs --------- P 3000 Python 3000 GvR P 3002 Procedure for Backwards-Incompatible Changes Bethard P 3003 Python Language Moratorium Cannon, Noller, GvR P 3099 Things that will Not Change in Python 3000 Brandl PW 3001 Procedure for reviewing and improving standard ... Brandl I 3100 Miscellaneous Python 3.0 Plans Cannon General Use Python PEPs ----------------------- I 290 Code Migration and Modernization Hettinger Feature and Subject Topics ========================== Co-Function PEPs ---------------- S 380 Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator Ewing S 3152 Cofunctions Ewing SF 342 Coroutines via Enhanced Generators GvR, Eby IR 220 Coroutines, Generators, Continuations McMillan Data Security PEPs ------------------ IF 247 API for Cryptographic Hash Functions Kuchling IF 272 API for Block Encryption Algorithms v1.0 Kuchling Database PEPs ------------- IF 248 Python Database API Specification v1.0 Lemburg IF 249 Python Database API Specification v2.0 Lemburg Documentation PEPs ------------------ I 287 reStructuredText Docstring Format Goodger Generic Functions PEPs ---------------------- S 3124 Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and ... Eby Importing PEPs -------------- S 369 Post import hooks Heimes SF 302 New Import Hooks JvR, Moore Interfaces and Abstract Base Classes PEPs ----------------------------------------- S 3124 Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and ... Eby SF 3119 Introducing Abstract Base Classes GvR, Talin SR 246 Object Adaptation Martelli, Evans SR 3133 Introducing Roles Winter Web PEPs -------- IF 333 Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0 Eby IF 3333 Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0.1 Eby
Numerical Index
num title owner
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* P 1 PEP Purpose and Guidelines Warsaw, Hylton, Goodger
* P 2 Procedure for Adding New Modules Faassen
* PW 3 Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports Hylton
* P 4 Deprecation of Standard Modules von Löwis
* P 5 Guidelines for Language Evolution Prescod
* P 6 Bug Fix Releases Aahz, Baxter
* P 7 Style Guide for C Code GvR
* P 8 Style Guide for Python Code GvR, Warsaw
* P 9 Sample Plaintext PEP Template Warsaw
* P 10 Voting Guidelines Warsaw
* P 11 Removing support for little used platforms von Löwis
* P 12 Sample reStructuredText PEP Template Goodger, Warsaw
* I 20 The Zen of Python Peters
* I 42 Feature Requests Hylton
SF 100 Python Unicode Integration Lemburg
* I 101 Doing Python Releases 101 Warsaw, GvR
IS 102 Doing Python Micro Releases Baxter, Warsaw, GvR
* IF 160 Python 1.6 Release Schedule Drake
* IF 200 Python 2.0 Release Schedule Hylton
SF 201 Lockstep Iteration Warsaw
SF 202 List Comprehensions Warsaw
SF 203 Augmented Assignments Wouters
SR 204 Range Literals Wouters
SF 205 Weak References Drake
IW 206 Python Advanced Library Kuchling
SF 207 Rich Comparisons GvR, Ascher
SF 208 Reworking the Coercion Model Schemenauer, Lemburg
SW 209 Multi-dimensional Arrays Barrett, Oliphant
SR 210 Decoupling the Interpreter Loop Ascher
SD 211 Adding A New Outer Product Operator Wilson
SD 212 Loop Counter Iteration Schneider-Kamp
SD 213 Attribute Access Handlers Prescod
SF 214 Extended Print Statement Warsaw
SS 215 String Interpolation Yee
IR 216 Docstring Format Zadka
SF 217 Display Hook for Interactive Use Zadka
SF 218 Adding a Built-In Set Object Type Wilson, Hettinger
SD 219 Stackless Python McMillan
* IR 220 Coroutines, Generators, Continuations McMillan
SF 221 Import As Wouters
SD 222 Web Library Enhancements Kuchling
SF 223 Change the Meaning of \x Escapes Peters
SR 224 Attribute Docstrings Lemburg
SD 225 Elementwise/Objectwise Operators Zhu, Lielens
* IF 226 Python 2.1 Release Schedule Hylton
SF 227 Statically Nested Scopes Hylton
SW 228 Reworking Python's Numeric Model Zadka, GvR
SF 229 Using Distutils to Build Python Kuchling
SF 230 Warning Framework GvR
SR 231 __findattr__() Warsaw
SF 232 Function Attributes Warsaw
SD 233 Python Online Help Prescod
SF 234 Iterators Yee, GvR
SF 235 Import on Case-Insensitive Platforms Peters
SF 236 Back to the __future__ Peters
SF 237 Unifying Long Integers and Integers Zadka, GvR
SF 238 Changing the Division Operator Zadka, GvR
SR 239 Adding a Rational Type to Python Craig, Zadka
SR 240 Adding a Rational Literal to Python Craig, Zadka
SF 241 Metadata for Python Software Packages Kuchling
SR 242 Numeric Kinds Dubois
SW 243 Module Repository Upload Mechanism Reifschneider
SR 244 The `directive' statement von Löwis
SR 245 Python Interface Syntax Pelletier
* SR 246 Object Adaptation Martelli, Evans
* IF 247 API for Cryptographic Hash Functions Kuchling
* IF 248 Python Database API Specification v1.0 Lemburg
* IF 249 Python Database API Specification v2.0 Lemburg
SF 250 Using site-packages on Windows Moore
* IF 251 Python 2.2 Release Schedule Warsaw, GvR
SF 252 Making Types Look More Like Classes GvR
SF 253 Subtyping Built-in Types GvR
SR 254 Making Classes Look More Like Types GvR
SF 255 Simple Generators Schemenauer, Peters, Hetland
SR 256 Docstring Processing System Framework Goodger
* I 257 Docstring Conventions Goodger, GvR
SR 258 Docutils Design Specification Goodger
SR 259 Omit printing newline after newline GvR
SF 260 Simplify xrange() GvR
SF 261 Support for "wide" Unicode characters Prescod
SD 262 A Database of Installed Python Packages Kuchling
SF 263 Defining Python Source Code Encodings Lemburg, von Löwis
SF 264 Future statements in simulated shells Hudson
SR 265 Sorting Dictionaries by Value Griffin
SW 266 Optimizing Global Variable/Attribute Access Montanaro
SD 267 Optimized Access to Module Namespaces Hylton
SR 268 Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV Stein
SD 269 Pgen Module for Python Riehl
SR 270 uniq method for list objects Petrone
SR 271 Prefixing sys.path by command line option Giacometti
* IF 272 API for Block Encryption Algorithms v1.0 Kuchling
SF 273 Import Modules from Zip Archives Ahlstrom
SW 274 Dict Comprehensions Warsaw
SR 275 Switching on Multiple Values Lemburg
SR 276 Simple Iterator for ints Althoff
SF 277 Unicode file name support for Windows NT Hodgson
SF 278 Universal Newline Support Jansen
SF 279 The enumerate() built-in function Hettinger
SD 280 Optimizing access to globals GvR
SR 281 Loop Counter Iteration with range and xrange Hetland
SF 282 A Logging System Sajip, Mick
* IF 283 Python 2.3 Release Schedule GvR
SR 284 Integer for-loops Eppstein, Ewing
SF 285 Adding a bool type GvR
S 286 Enhanced Argument Tuples von Löwis
* I 287 reStructuredText Docstring Format Goodger
SW 288 Generators Attributes and Exceptions Hettinger
SF 289 Generator Expressions Hettinger
* I 290 Code Migration and Modernization Hettinger
* IF 291 Backward Compatibility for the Python 2 Standard ... Norwitz
SF 292 Simpler String Substitutions Warsaw
SF 293 Codec Error Handling Callbacks Dörwald
SR 294 Type Names in the types Module Tirosh
SR 295 Interpretation of multiline string constants Koltsov
SW 296 Adding a bytes Object Type Gilbert
SR 297 Support for System Upgrades Lemburg
SW 298 The Locked Buffer Interface Heller
SR 299 Special __main__() function in modules Epler
SF 301 Package Index and Metadata for Distutils Jones
* SF 302 New Import Hooks JvR, Moore
SR 303 Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors Bellman
SW 304 Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files Montanaro
SF 305 CSV File API Altis, Cole, McNamara, Montanaro, Wells
IW 306 How to Change Python's Grammar Hudson, Diederich, Coghlan, Peterson
SF 307 Extensions to the pickle protocol GvR, Peters
SF 308 Conditional Expressions GvR, Hettinger
SF 309 Partial Function Application Harris
SR 310 Reliable Acquisition/Release Pairs Hudson, Moore
SF 311 Simplified Global Interpreter Lock Acquisition for ... Hammond
SD 312 Simple Implicit Lambda Suzi, Martelli
SR 313 Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python Meyer
SF 314 Metadata for Python Software Packages v1.1 Kuchling, Jones
SD 315 Enhanced While Loop Hettinger, Carroll
SD 316 Programming by Contract for Python Way
SR 317 Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation Taschuk
SF 318 Decorators for Functions and Methods Smith
SR 319 Python Synchronize/Asynchronize Block Pelletier
* IF 320 Python 2.4 Release Schedule Warsaw, Hettinger, Baxter
SW 321 Date/Time Parsing and Formatting Kuchling
SF 322 Reverse Iteration Hettinger
SD 323 Copyable Iterators Martelli
SF 324 subprocess - New process module Astrand
SR 325 Resource-Release Support for Generators Pedroni
SR 326 A Case for Top and Bottom Values Carlson, Reedy
SF 327 Decimal Data Type Batista
SF 328 Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative Aahz
SR 329 Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library Hettinger
SR 330 Python Bytecode Verification Pelletier
SF 331 Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions Reis
SR 332 Byte vectors and String/Unicode Unification Montanaro
* IF 333 Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0 Eby
SW 334 Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration Evans
S 335 Overloadable Boolean Operators Ewing
SR 336 Make None Callable McClelland
S 337 Logging Usage in the Standard Library Dubner
SF 338 Executing modules as scripts Coghlan
IW 339 Design of the CPython Compiler Cannon
SR 340 Anonymous Block Statements GvR
SF 341 Unifying try-except and try-finally Brandl
* SF 342 Coroutines via Enhanced Generators GvR, Eby
SF 343 The "with" Statement GvR, Coghlan
SS 344 Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks Yee
SA 345 Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 Jones
SW 346 User Defined ("``with``") Statements Coghlan
* PF 347 Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion von Löwis
SR 348 Exception Reorganization for Python 3.0 Cannon
SD 349 Allow str() to return unicode strings Schemenauer
IR 350 Codetags Elliott
SR 351 The freeze protocol Warsaw
SF 352 Required Superclass for Exceptions Cannon, GvR
SF 353 Using ssize_t as the index type von Löwis
SR 354 Enumerations in Python Finney
SR 355 Path - Object oriented filesystem paths Lindqvist
* IF 356 Python 2.5 Release Schedule Norwitz, GvR, Baxter
SF 357 Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing Oliphant
SF 358 The "bytes" Object Schemenauer, GvR
SW 359 The "make" Statement Bethard
* I 360 Externally Maintained Packages Cannon
* IF 361 Python 2.6 and 3.0 Release Schedule Norwitz, Warsaw
S 362 Function Signature Object Cannon, Seo
SR 363 Syntax For Dynamic Attribute Access North
SW 364 Transitioning to the Py3K Standard Library Warsaw
SR 365 Adding the pkg_resources module Eby
SF 366 Main module explicit relative imports Coghlan
SS 367 New Super Spealman, Delaney
S 368 Standard image protocol and class Mastrodomenico
* S 369 Post import hooks Heimes
SF 370 Per user site-packages directory Heimes
SF 371 Addition of the multiprocessing package to the ... Noller, Oudkerk
SF 372 Adding an ordered dictionary to collections Ronacher, Hettinger
* I 373 Python 2.7 Release Schedule Peterson
* P 374 Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project Cannon, Turnbull, Vassalotti, Warsaw, Ochtman
* I 375 Python 3.1 Release Schedule Peterson
SA 376 Database of Installed Python Distributions Ziadé
SR 377 Allow __enter__() methods to skip the statement body Coghlan
SF 378 Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Hettinger
SW 379 Adding an Assignment Expression Whitley
* S 380 Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator Ewing
S 381 Mirroring infrastructure for PyPI Ziadé, v. Löwis
S 382 Namespace Packages v. Löwis
SF 383 Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces v. Löwis
SF 384 Defining a Stable ABI v. Löwis
* P 385 Migrating from Subversion to Mercurial Ochtman, Pitrou, Brandl
SA 386 Changing the version comparison module in Distutils Ziadé
* P 387 Backwards Compatibility Policy Peterson
SA 389 argparse - New Command Line Parsing Module Bethard
S 390 Static metadata for Distutils Ziadé
SA 391 Dictionary-Based Configuration For Logging Sajip
* I 392 Python 3.2 Release Schedule Brandl
S 393 Flexible String Representation v. Löwis
I 394 The "python" command on Unix-Like Systems Staley, Coghlan
S 395 Module Aliasing Coghlan
I 396 Module Version Numbers Warsaw
S 397 Python launcher for Windows Hammond
* I 398 Python 3.3 Release Schedule Brandl
I 399 Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibility ... Cannon
PR 401 BDFL Retirement Warsaw, Cannon
I 444 Python Web3 Interface McDonough, Ronacher
SR 666 Reject Foolish Indentation Creighton
SR 754 IEEE 754 Floating Point Special Values Warnes
* P 3000 Python 3000 GvR
* PW 3001 Procedure for reviewing and improving standard ... Brandl
* P 3002 Procedure for Backwards-Incompatible Changes Bethard
* P 3003 Python Language Moratorium Cannon, Noller, GvR
* P 3099 Things that will Not Change in Python 3000 Brandl
* I 3100 Miscellaneous Python 3.0 Plans Cannon
SF 3101 Advanced String Formatting Talin
SF 3102 Keyword-Only Arguments Talin
SR 3103 A Switch/Case Statement GvR
SF 3104 Access to Names in Outer Scopes Yee
SF 3105 Make print a function Brandl
SF 3106 Revamping dict.keys(), .values() and .items() GvR
SF 3107 Function Annotations Winter, Lownds
SA 3108 Standard Library Reorganization Cannon
SF 3109 Raising Exceptions in Python 3000 Winter
SF 3110 Catching Exceptions in Python 3000 Winter
SF 3111 Simple input built-in in Python 3000 Roberge
SF 3112 Bytes literals in Python 3000 Orendorff
SF 3113 Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking Cannon
SF 3114 Renaming iterator.next() to iterator.__next__() Yee
SF 3115 Metaclasses in Python 3000 Talin
SF 3116 New I/O Stutzbach, GvR, Verdone
SR 3117 Postfix type declarations Brandl
SA 3118 Revising the buffer protocol Oliphant, Banks
* SF 3119 Introducing Abstract Base Classes GvR, Talin
SF 3120 Using UTF-8 as the default source encoding von Löwis
SA 3121 Extension Module Initialization and Finalization von Löwis
SR 3122 Delineation of the main module Cannon
SF 3123 Making PyObject_HEAD conform to standard C von Löwis
* S 3124 Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and ... Eby
SR 3125 Remove Backslash Continuation Jewett
SR 3126 Remove Implicit String Concatenation Jewett, Hettinger
SF 3127 Integer Literal Support and Syntax Maupin
SR 3128 BList: A Faster List-like Type Stutzbach
SF 3129 Class Decorators Winter
SR 3130 Access to Current Module/Class/Function Jewett
SF 3131 Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers von Löwis
SF 3132 Extended Iterable Unpacking Brandl
* SR 3133 Introducing Roles Winter
SF 3134 Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks Yee
SA 3135 New Super Spealman, Delaney, Ryan
SR 3136 Labeled break and continue Chisholm
SF 3137 Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer GvR
SF 3138 String representation in Python 3000 Ishimoto
SR 3139 Cleaning out sys and the "interpreter" module Peterson
SR 3140 str(container) should call str(item), not repr(item) Broytmann, Jewett
SF 3141 A Type Hierarchy for Numbers Yasskin
S 3142 Add a "while" clause to generator expressions Britton
S 3143 Standard daemon process library Finney
S 3144 IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python ... Moody
S 3145 Asynchronous I/O For subprocess.Popen Pruitt, McCreary, Carlson
SA 3146 Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython Winter, Yasskin, Kleckner
SF 3147 PYC Repository Directories Warsaw
SF 3148 futures - execute computations asynchronously Quinlan
SF 3149 ABI version tagged .so files Warsaw
SD 3150 Statement local namespaces (aka "given" clause) Coghlan
S 3151 Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy Pitrou
* S 3152 Cofunctions Ewing
* IF 3333 Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0.1 EbyCategory Key
S - Standards Track PEP
I - Informational PEP
P - Process PEP
A - Accepted proposal
R - Rejected proposal
W - Withdrawn proposal
D - Deferred proposal
F - Final proposal
A - Active proposal
D - Draft proposal
S - Superseded proposal