On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > I was fooling around with Python 3.1 today, and I found this little nugget: > >>>> import __future__ >>>> dir(__future__) > ['CO_FUTURE_ABSOLUTE_IMPORT', 'CO_FUTURE_BARRY_AS_BDFL', > 'CO_FUTURE_DIVISION', 'CO_FUTURE_PRINT_FUNCTION', > 'CO_FUTURE_UNICODE_LITERALS', 'CO_FUTURE_WITH_STATEMENT', > 'CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED', 'CO_NESTED', '_Feature', '__all__', > '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', > 'absolute_import', 'all_feature_names', 'barry_as_FLUFL', 'division', > 'generators', 'nested_scopes', 'print_function', 'unicode_literals', > 'with_statement'] > > hmm... BARRY_AS_BDFL and barry_as_FLUFL > >>>> from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL >>>> > > nothing noticable happened. I googled the latter, and found that it's an April > Fools (of 2009!) checkin that was never reverted.
We don't revert our April Fool's checkins. Easter eggs are forever! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
