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Python 8 will be the next major Python version
- mjevans 11y agoApril 1st; training everyone to take everything with a grain of salt... sometimes with a mine of salt.
- RandomBK 11y agoOh god, this is triggering my PTSD already! On the other hand, a language-enforced style guide might not be such a bad idea...
- chrisdotcode 11y agoGo does this with go fmt. I hear it works quite nicely.
- smnrchrds 11y agoI wish the part about renaming PyPI back to Cheeseshop were true.
- shogun21 11y agoThis really bytes.
- shrugger 11y agoI groaned out loud when I read this.
- comex 11y agoIt's the latest in a string of terrible April Fool's jokes.
- wittekm 11y agoA unique ode to the biggest changes between 2->3
- notdonspaulding 11y agoThey're just trying not to leave behind a remainder of the already-divided community.
- raverbashing 11y agoWell don't forget to convert it to a Unicode string before
- andremendes 11y agoThat was the funniest april fools joke I've read since I've arrived at work today.
- sshasan 11y agoseconded!
- outworlder 11y agoRefusing to import files with PEP8 violations would actually be a good thing - had it always been that way.
- PeCaN 11y agoLater in that thread: > Does it combine the base of Python 2 with the power of Python 3?
- stared 11y agoWhy 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 11y agoTo 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 11y agoI like how it's more than obviously an April 1st thing. But it's also kinda meh and not all that funny.
- stared 11y agoAnd when Node jumped from 0.x to 4.x it was not a joke.
- DonHopkins 11y agoWhen will Python catch up to where C++ was exactly 18 years ago? [1] [1] http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf