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PEPs API: handle name with commas in CSV author list #4211
Description
The authors field in the API is a comma-separated list:
https://peps.python.org/api/peps.json
For example: "authors": "Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, David Goodger, Alyssa Coghlan"
However, there's at least one name with a comma: "authors": "Fred L. Drake, Jr."
Let's handle this properly, perhaps using the csv module?
Thanks to @davep for finding this.
Reacted by Dave Pearson
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davep commentedon Jan 18, 2025
Given any change could inevitably have an impact on any tools out there using this data, which probably handle this anyway, might it not make sense to add a parallel property that is an actual JSON list of authors? This way no additional handling is needed by a client (they're already parsing JSON) and the format remains backward-compatible.
hugovk commentedon Jan 18, 2025
Yes, that sounds sensible.
This will likely need an update to the source PEPs as well:
PEP 1 defines this as part of a "RFC 2822 style header preamble":