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PEP: 401
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Title: BDFL Retirement
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2009-04-01 00:00:00 -0400 (Wed, 1 Apr 2009)$
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Author: Barry Warsaw, Brett Cannon
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Status: April Fool!
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Type: Process
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 01-Apr-2009
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Post-History: 01-Apr-2009
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Abstract
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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.
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Rationale
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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.
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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 (PyCon_ 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).
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.. _PyCon: http://us.pycon.org/
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Official Acts of the FLUFL
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==========================
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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:
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* Recognized that the selection of ``Hg`` 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 ``Bzr`` instead, the only true choice.
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* Recognized that the ``!=`` 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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``<>`` 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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``from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL`` has been added.
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* Recognized that the ``print`` function in Python 3.0 was a horrible,
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pain-inducing mistake, the FLUFL reinstates the ``print``
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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 [1]_ virtual machine. Alternative implementations
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of Python (e.g. Jython [2]_, IronPython [3]_, and PyPy [4]_) are
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officially discouraged but tolerated.
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* Recognized that the Python Software Foundation [5]_ having fulfilled
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its mission admirably, is hereby disbanded. The Python Steering
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Union [6]_ (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).
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References
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.. [1] http://www.parrot.org
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.. [2] http://www.jython.org
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.. [3] http://www.ironpython.com
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.. [4] http://www.codespeak.net/pypy
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.. [5] http://www.python.org/psf
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.. [6] http://www.pythonlabs.com
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Copyright
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=========
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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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not exist). We suppose it's okay for you to read this, but don't even
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think about quoting, copying, modifying, or distributing it.
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