[Python-Dev] April 1st jokes (was: Base-96)

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > That was an April Fool's RFC.
> 
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC -- it has
> a ton of these. Great fun reading through some of them on an idle
> Saturday afternoon. :-)

   There were a lot of Python jokes for the Apr 1st. What a pity we have
ceased to make such jokes.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/076593.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/197232.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-April/256320.html
   (Despite being a joke it really works!)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/315453.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/315457.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/375866.html

Oleg.
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