Infra: Use a list of authors in peps.json

[AA-Turner]

Closes#4211.

Alternatively, we could just use a different seperator (;)? The authors field of peps.json was originally intended for literal reproduction without any re-parsing, hence why I joined the alreay-parsed list of authors into a string.

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[hugovk]

I think the first question is if we want to break backwards compatibility?

I lean to not breaking compatibility. If so, the other options are:

• keep the authors string using a different separator (for example, ";")
• keep the authors string and add a new array of author strings

[warsaw]

keep the authors string and add a new array of author strings

I'd vote for keeping authors as is, and adding (something like) author_list as the array of author strings to keep backward compatibility.

[AA-Turner]

From a cursory search, it seems the vast majority of instances of peps.json in the wild are reproductions of the 723 example:

https://github.com/search?q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fpeps.python.org%2Fapi%2Fpeps.json%22+NOT+is%3Afork+NOT+is%3Aarchived&type=code

But sure, happy to add as a new field. The only negative would be the file size (~15% increase).

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[hugovk]

From a cursory search, it seems the vast majority of instances of peps.json in the wild are reproductions of the 723 example:

github.com/search?q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fpeps.python.org%2Fapi%2Fpeps.json%22+NOT+is%3Afork+NOT+is%3Aarchived&type=code

Here's a couple that would have broken (but I'm sure we could have convinced the authors to update :)

• https://github.com/brettcannon/brettcannon/blob/42eb826a969bd9430053193e3fb5f74a43b74f77/free-labour.py#L309
• https://github.com/JacobCoffee/byte/blob/336008fe8c42850d313c912f8e34a92bb02bffe4/byte_bot/byte/lib/utils.py#L430

But sure, happy to add as a new field. The only negative would be the file size (~15% increase).

Yep, I think 331K -> 368K is okay. Thanks!

[hugovk]

Thank you!

[hugovk]

Does typescript give nicer formatting than javascript?

[AA-Turner]

Yes, especially since we now use Array<...>

Current:

Proposed: