AprilFools

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The Python community has a long history of April Fool’s postings to news:comp.lang.python (a.k.a. mailto:python-list@python.org). We’ve collected references to a number of them here. If you know of more, please update the page.

Postings and Press Releases

• 2001 PythonLabs team moves to ActiveState

• 2001 Python and Perl joint development

• 2003 Stackless Perl 4.0

• 2004 ‘goto’ for Python (which actually works!)

• 2005 Perl-to-Python translation review request

• 2006 Python to adopt royalty-based commercial licensing

April Fool’s PEPs

• 2003 - Adding Roman numeral literals to Python

• 2007 - Postfix type declarations

Python humor on the web

• 1998 First Pythonic Award

• - humor on python.org (includes the Zen of Python)