>> Also, I'd like to point out that "where's the patch" is really unfair. Python programmers are 'users/customers'. So, it's like if a customer asked for a feat

>> Also, I'd like to point out that "where's the patch" is really unfair. Python programmers are 'users/customers'. So, it's like if a customer asked for a feature and you'd tell her to implement it.. No they are not customers. They aren't paying anything to anyone nor do the python devs owe him anything. It infuriates me every time someone considers a non-paying (or otherwise contributing) open source software user a customer that's "always right". In general, if you have a feature that you wish to get in an open source project, you start off by making a crude implementation yourself and then go and submit it for peer review and further discussion. If it were a humble feature request, it should have been sent to python-ideas, not python-devs. As it was not really a feature request and it didn't have any examples what the new syntax would look like, it was just an opinion piece that should have gone to his personal blog. Now this jerk just wasted a whole lot of the python core dev team's time, including at least two responses from Guido van Rossum. I'd much more prefer seeing the python devs spending their time on developing python than answering e-mails like this.