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Oh, man, it has been a while. The last one I remember is PEP 404 (if you
can find it :) ), dated 2011 and it wasn't an April Fool's...

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:23?AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in
> the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or
> "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When
> was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day
> joke played?
>
> ¯\_(?)_/¯
>
> Skip
>
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Last I heard is that some core devs are forming the duo PEP Shop Boys.
Their debut album will be titled "Please merge".


On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:22 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in
> the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or
> "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When
> was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day
> joke played?
>
> ¯\_(?)_/¯
>
> Skip
>
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On 4/1/23, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not
> in the Python ecosystem?

I thought this one was funny:

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103172
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 12:28?PM Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/23, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> > April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> > lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just
> not
> > in the Python ecosystem?
>
> I thought this one was funny:
>
> https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103172
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Berkeley, California

Yea, it is funny. I commented on it.

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Eryk Sun
Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:23 PM
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Python <python-list@python.org>; python-dev Dev <python-dev@python.org>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Small lament...

On 4/1/23, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up
> on April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of
> these lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still
> happens, just not in the Python ecosystem?

I thought this one was funny:

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103172
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A bit late, this reached my inbox:
https://peternorvig.medium.com/new-python-operators-9f31b56ddcc7

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:23?AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in
> the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or
> "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When
> was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day
> joke played?
>
> ¯\_(?)_/¯
>
> Skip
>
> _______________________________________________
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I heard it on reasonably believable authority that the FLUFL took the year off. Lamentable.

-Barry

> On Apr 1, 2023, at 11:19, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day joke played?
>
> ¯\_(?)_/¯
>
> Skip
>
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In case people missed it, this Pip PR:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/11914

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 8:41?PM Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:

> I heard it on reasonably believable authority that the FLUFL took the year
> off. Lamentable.
>
> -Barry
>
> > On Apr 1, 2023, at 11:19, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not
> in the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or
> "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When
> was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day
> joke played?
> >
> > ¯\_(?)_/¯
> >
> > Skip
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org
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Sadly, between Daylight Savings time and a newer irrational PI ? Day, I am afraid some April Foolers got thrown off albeit some may shower us with nonsense in May I.

-----Original Message-----
From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com@python.org> On Behalf Of Barry Warsaw
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 8:31 PM
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Python <python-list@python.org>; Python Dev <python-dev@python.org>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Small lament...

I heard it on reasonably believable authority that the FLUFL took the year off. Lamentable.

-Barry

> On Apr 1, 2023, at 11:19, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day joke played?
>
> ¯\_(?)_/¯
>
> Skip
>
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