PEP 401 origin and authorship

2022-06-17 Thread Chris Angelico
Somewhere around the place, I remember reading something about how PEP 401 (the retirement of the BDFL and the accession of the FLUFL) came to be. It involved a joke being turned on its originator, I think. But I can't find it back. Anyone have a reference handy? ChrisA -- https

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-21 Thread alessiogiovanni . baroni
On 19 Apr, 21:28, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? Yep. Actually, the Cython project was lucky that the FLUFL did not recognise it as an alternative implementation of Python. That way, we can

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-21 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:02:35 -0300, alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com escribió: On 19 Apr, 21:28, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? mm .. I noticed some inconsistencies in PEP, and I

PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread alessiogiovanni . baroni
Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:02:35 -0700, alessiogiovanni.baroni wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? For the benefit of people who are not aware of the tradition of April Fools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fool Look at the date of the PEP and the status. -- Steven --

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:02:35 -0700, alessiogiovanni.baroni wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? For the benefit of people who are not aware of the tradition of April Fools:

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:30:44 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: Look at the date of the PEP and the status. Heck, just look at its number and mentally insert one slash or dash. Fourth of January? What's special about 4th of Jan? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:30:44 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: Look at the date of the PEP and the status. Heck, just look at its number and mentally insert one slash or dash. Fourth of January? What's

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
Chris Rebert wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:02:35 -0700, alessiogiovanni.baroni wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? For the benefit of people who are not aware of the tradition of

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-20 Thread alessiogiovanni . baroni
On 20 Apr, 10:22, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:02:35 -0700, alessiogiovanni.baroni wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? For the benefit of people who are not aware of the tradition of April Fools:

Re: PEP 401

2009-04-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Are 19 days that I read this PEP; it's all true? Yep. Actually, the Cython project was lucky that the FLUFL did not recognise it as an alternative implementation of Python. That way, we can easily finish up world domination, say, 10-20 years before Python