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Tue Apr 8 17:55:19 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133841.html

Ooooh...that stings.

Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>2014-04-08 3:04 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:
>>> > >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.
>>
>> 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 :-)
>
>I'm also against the removal of jokes! Removing the antigravity module
>would break the backward compatibility! from __futures__ import
>braces!
>
>Ten years ago, we asked me to add the "IPv6" feature in a firewall. I
>started to implement the RFC 1924 to have a full support. In the C
>language, handling the base 85 is not simple because you need
>arithmetic operations on large integers (128 bits).
>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924
>
>3 days later, when my code was working, I saw the date of the RFC... I
>was young and naive :-)
>
>Victor
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