On 2014-04-08 02:45, Guido van Rossum wrote:
So what? Aren't we allowed to have fun? :-)
Next thing you know, he'll be threatening people with The Comfy Chair!
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org <mailto:benja...@python.org>> wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 18:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:04:18PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 14:58, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > On Apr 07, 2014, at 05:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > > > > > > >Python used to have an alias <> for != and I for one miss <> in 3.x. I > > > >don't think TOOWTDI should be the last word in this debate. > > > > > > PEP 401 to the rescue: > > > > It occurs to me that since that Aprils' Fools joke is many years old > > now, we should remove it. > > -1 on removal. You can't be serious. > > It makes a nice Easter Egg, especially now that "import this" has become > less of an Easter Egg and more of a standard Python module :-) It's a terrible Easter Egg because it's basically a CPython core developer in-joke.
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