Guido admits this is a joke later in the thread: (And to those taking the thread seriously: this is all in jest. We won't change the indexing base. The idea is

Guido admits this is a joke later in the thread: (And to those taking the thread seriously: this is all in jest. We won't change the indexing base. The idea is so preposterous that the only kind of response possible is to laugh with it.) --Guido http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-September/011462.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-September...