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<h1 class="page-title">PEP 401 – BDFL Retirement</h1>
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<dd class="field-odd">Barry Warsaw, Brett Cannon</dd>
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<dd class="field-even">01-Apr-2009</dd>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#abstract">Abstract</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#rationale">Rationale</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#official-acts-of-the-flufl">Official Acts of the FLUFL</a></li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#abstract" role="doc-backlink">Abstract</a></h2>
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<p>The BDFL, having shepherded Python development for 20 years,
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officially announces his retirement, effective immediately. Following
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a unanimous vote, his replacement is named.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#rationale" role="doc-backlink">Rationale</a></h2>
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<p>Guido wrote the original implementation of Python in 1989, and after
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nearly 20 years of leading the community, has decided to step aside as
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its Benevolent Dictator For Life. His official title is now
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Benevolent Dictator Emeritus Vacationing Indefinitely from the
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Language (BDEVIL). Guido leaves Python in the good hands of its new
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leader and its vibrant community, in order to train for his lifelong
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dream of climbing Mount Everest.</p>
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<p>After unanimous vote of the Python Steering Union (not to be confused
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with the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist)
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at the 2009 Python Conference (<a class="reference external" href="http://us.pycon.org/">PyCon</a> 2009), Guido’s successor has been
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chosen: Barry Warsaw, or as he is affectionately known, Uncle Barry.
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Uncle Barry’s official title is Friendly Language Uncle For Life (FLUFL).</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#official-acts-of-the-flufl" role="doc-backlink">Official Acts of the FLUFL</a></h2>
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<p>FLUFL Uncle Barry enacts the following decisions, in order to
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demonstrate his intention to lead the community in the same
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responsible and open manner as his predecessor, whose name escapes
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him:</p>
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<li>Recognized that the selection of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Hg</span></code> as the DVCS of choice was
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clear proof of the onset of the BDEVIL’s insanity, and reverting
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this decision to switch to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Bzr</span></code> instead, the only true choice.</li>
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<li>Recognized that the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!=</span></code> inequality operator in Python 3.0 was a
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horrible, finger pain inducing mistake, the FLUFL reinstates the
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><></span></code> diamond operator as the sole spelling. This change is
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important enough to be implemented for, and released in Python
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3.1. To help transition to this feature, a new future statement,
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">from</span> <span class="pre">__future__</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">barry_as_FLUFL</span></code> has been added.</li>
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<li>Recognized that the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">print</span></code> function in Python 3.0 was a horrible,
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pain-inducing mistake, the FLUFL reinstates the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">print</span></code>
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statement. This change is important enough to be implemented for,
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and released in Python 3.0.2.</li>
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<li>Recognized that the disappointing adoption curve of Python 3.0
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signals its abject failure, all work on Python 3.1 and subsequent
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Python 3.x versions is hereby terminated. All features in Python
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3.0 shall be back ported to Python 2.7 which will be the official
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and sole next release. The Python 3.0 string and bytes types will
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be back ported to Python 2.6.2 for the convenience of developers.</li>
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<li>Recognized that C is a 20th-century language with almost universal
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rejection by programmers under the age of 30, the CPython
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implementation will terminate with the release of Python 2.6.2 and
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3.0.2. Thereafter, the reference implementation of Python will
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target the Parrot <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id7" id="id1">[1]</a> virtual machine. Alternative implementations
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of Python (e.g. Jython <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id8" id="id2">[2]</a>, IronPython <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id9" id="id3">[3]</a>, and PyPy <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id10" id="id4">[4]</a>) are
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officially discouraged but tolerated.</li>
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<li>Recognized that the Python Software Foundation <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id11" id="id5">[5]</a> having fulfilled
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its mission admirably, is hereby disbanded. The Python Steering
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Union <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id12" id="id6">[6]</a> (not to be confused with the Python Secret Underground,
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which emphatically does not exist), is now the sole steward for all
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of Python’s intellectual property. All PSF funds are hereby
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transferred to the PSU (not that PSU, the other PSU).</li>
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<p>This document is the property of the Python Steering Union (not to be
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confused with the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does
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<p>Source: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0401.rst">https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0401.rst</a></p>
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<p>Last modified: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/peps/commits/main/peps/pep-0401.rst">2023-09-09 17:39:29 GMT</a></p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#rationale">Rationale</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#official-acts-of-the-flufl">Official Acts of the FLUFL</a></li>
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