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mjevans
April 1st; training everyone to take everything with a grain of salt... sometimes with a mine of salt.
RandomBK
Oh god, this is triggering my PTSD already! On the other hand, a language-enforced style guide might not be such a bad idea...
chrisdotcode
Go does this with go fmt. I hear it works quite nicely.
smnrchrds
I wish the part about renaming PyPI back to Cheeseshop were true.
shogun21
This really bytes.
[dead] shrugger
I groaned out loud when I read this.
comex
It's the latest in a string of terrible April Fool's jokes.
wittekm
A unique ode to the biggest changes between 2->3
notdonspaulding
They're just trying not to leave behind a remainder of the already-divided community.
raverbashing
Well don't forget to convert it to a Unicode string before
andremendes
That was the funniest april fools joke I've read since I've arrived at work today.
outworlder
Refusing to import files with PEP8 violations would actually be a good thing - had it always been that way.
PeCaN
Later in that thread:

> Does it combine the base of Python 2 with the power of Python 3?

stared
Why not just Python 4 - just with for loops requiring a bracket and leaving '+' only for float addition (for integer addition there will be '++'). With no new benefits, but 10% worse performance.

Oh, wait - it would an old-joke recycling.

sdegutis
To quote Uncle Albert and Bert:

> I always say, there's nothing like a good joke.

> No, and that was nothing like a good joke.

djsumdog
I like how it's more than obviously an April 1st thing. But it's also kinda meh and not all that funny.
stared
And when Node jumped from 0.x to 4.x it was not a joke.