python
Disallow "No-GIL" from the glossary of specific words
The Steering Council, on accepting PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython), said:
We want to avoid negatives in terms and flags and such, so we won’t get into double-negative terrain (like we do when we talk about ‘non no-GIL’). We’d like a positive, clear term to talk about the no-GIL build, and we’re suggesting ‘free-threaded’. (Relatedly, that’s why the build mode/ABI letter is ‘t’ and not ‘n’; that change was already made.)
"No-GIL" comes up regularly; shall we add this to the style guide so we have something to point to beyond the lengthy acceptance message?
By the way, do we have a tool checking for such strings actually? because we could run a simple grep on the files as a GH action so that it's automatic.
We don't, and we wouldn't want to fail on things like https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/bd3d31f380cd451a4ab6da5fbfde463fed95b5b5/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0a2.rst?plain=1#L1493
You could have a tool in Python with an ignore file including the lines to ignore (having a tool could help people that do not know about bad words but I don't know how much of ignored lines we will need to have...)
Hi @hugovk! I would like to work on this.
To clarify the scope: I plan to update the Style Guide (likely glossary.rst or the specific style guide document) to explicitly recommend 'free-threaded' over 'No-GIL', citing the PEP 703 acceptance.
I will focus on the documentation update rather than creating an automated checking tool for now. Please assign this to me.
Hello, feel free to work on the issue, but we generally don't assign them here.
