PEPs are basically the Python community's RFCs (if you're familiar with those).
BTW, what you call "an opinionated piece on how to write Python" was originally written by Guido van Rossum, the guy who invented Python in the first place. I think that gives him the right to say something on the topic...
(You ought to know that Python has a large following with a strong community feeling. Making negative remarks about their BDFL - benevolent dictator for life - van Rossum does not go down well ;-) )
And I hope that other people don't think I used the wording 'opinionated' in a negative way. I do know about the concept of a BDFL, and I do know that Guido was behind those comments.
But I still stand behind my assessment that the PEP 8 comments are opinionated. And maybe rightly so. ;)
I think you'll find lots of people in the Python community who think that Python 3 was a mistake, that GvR's insistence on artificially weakening lambdas is a mistake, etc. Disagreeing with style is pretty minor.
Doesn't make it any less of a community. Families can disagree with each other and still love each other.
BTW, what you call "an opinionated piece on how to write Python" was originally written by Guido van Rossum, the guy who invented Python in the first place. I think that gives him the right to say something on the topic...
(You ought to know that Python has a large following with a strong community feeling. Making negative remarks about their BDFL - benevolent dictator for life - van Rossum does not go down well ;-) )