PEP 312 (and thus 308) implemented with a black magic trick

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Sean Ross:
  [...]
> '~' just happens to be easier than ':' to intelligently isolate and replace
> in Python code because it
> has fewer possible uses/meanings.

Imho the more important factor is that the code using ~ in the
black magic way can be compiled by the stock compiler as is
(though the result of that compilation is never used).

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