The required parts for a PEP to be accepted include the following:
- A preamble: This includes the PEP number, a short title, the names of others, and so on.
- Abstract: A short description of the issue addressed in the PEP.
- License: Each PEP must be either placed in the public domain or licensed under the Open Publication License.
- Specification: Technical specs that describe the syntax and semantics of new language features, detailed enough to allow interoperable implementations in alternate Python implementations, that is, CPython, Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and so on.
- Motivation: Why the author created the PEP, and what inadequacies currently exist in the Python ecosystem.
- Rationale: This expands on the specification by describing ...