Lame: Submit a PEP, campaign for community support, write a patch, go back and forth with the maintainers, endure weeks and months of bikeshedding, then maybe,

Lame: Submit a PEP, campaign for community support, write a patch, go back and forth with the maintainers, endure weeks and months of bikeshedding, then maybe, eventually have your feature included in the next Python release. Game: Use the codec hack, immediately publish your feature for all Python versions, then write "please do not use" to be safe.