This feature request comes about 196 days to early. It is perhaps worth considering on April 1, but not in September.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 8:59 AM Jeremiah Vivian < nohackingofkrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > NEW_FEATURE = "remove_barry_from_BDFL" or > "barry_resign_as_FLUFL"/"barry_resign_as_BDFL"; > > Add a new future import NEW_FEATURE. This reverts the effects of the > future import "barry_as_FLUFL" easter egg IF it is ever imported. This is > absolutely unnecessary when "barry_as_FLUFL" isn't imported. > > There can be optional messages attached to a Barry-related future import: > - When future import NEW_FEATURE is imported and future import > "barry_as_FLUFL" is already imported: > -- "Barry was overthrown from BDFL-ship!" ( friendlier message: "Barry has > resigned from FLUFL-ship."/"Barry has resigned from BDFL-ship." ) > - When future import "barry_as_FLUFL" is imported and NEW_FEATURE is > already imported: > -- "Barry has returned as FLUFL." ( or "Barry has returned as BDFL." ) > > This idea also suggests allowing future imports anywhere in the file as > long as it's Barry-related ( optional feature: only allow a Barry-related > future import IF it is the opposite of the previous Barry-related future > import. The opposite of "no Barry-related future imports yet" is the future > import "barry_as_FLUFL" ) > > Test cases: > >>> from __future__ import barry_resigned_as_FLUFL # no effect > >>> from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL > >>> 1 <> 2 > True > >>> 1 != 2 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 1 != 2 > ^^ > SyntaxError: with Barry as BDFL, use '<>' instead of '!=' > >>> from __future__ import barry_resigned_as_FLUFL > Barry has resigned from BDFL-ship. > >>> 1 <> 2 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 1 <> 2 > ^^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>> 1 != 2 > True > >>> from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL > Barry has returned as FLUFL. > >>> 1 != 2 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 1 != 2 > ^^ > SyntaxError: with Barry as BDFL, use '<>' instead of '!=' > >>> 1 <> 2 > True > >>> from __future__ import barry_resigned_as_FLUFL > Barry has resigned from BDFL-ship. > >>> 1 != 2 > True > >>> 1 <> 2 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 1 <> 2 > ^^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/2JTDWRAM4OCZPRH3YZQV5IAE3NHURR5O/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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