[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:09 AM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 11:30 PM 7/7/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> > At 03:23 PM 7/7/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> >>
>> >> When I started to work on this I didn't realize the gigantic amount of
>> >> work and coordination it requires
>> >
>> > No one expects the package inquisition.  ;-)
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, i've looked in the english dictionary but I don't get this one.
>> what do you mean ?
>
> It's a Monty Python reference, i.e. "no one expects the Spanish
> Inquisition".
>
> In the Spanish Inquisition sketch, a character is asked several questions he
> can't answer, and then complains that he wasn't expecting some kind of
> Spanish inquisition, at which point three scarlet-robed cardinals burst into
> the room and exclaim, "NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
>
> So I punned on that in order to imply that nobody who takes on the job of
> packaging expects to be asked the kind of detailed, unanswerable questions
> that come with the territory of packaging, or to be subjected to torture by
> third parties merely for trying to do something useful.
>
> And, by further implication, I was thus expressing camaraderie with you on
> your initiation into the wonderful world of trying to satisfy everyone in
> Pythonland, and our shared experience in the area of "if I'd really known
> what I was getting into, I probably wouldn't have".  ;-)

Hehe very nice, thanks for the explanation :)

(thanks to the others too)

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