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bla2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:02 UTC] No.17515883[source]▶

> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(

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sjm-lbm ◴[12 Jul 18 16:09 UTC] No.17515955[source]▶

>>17515883 #

It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696

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1. swyx ◴[12 Jul 18 17:20 UTC] No.17516708[source]▶

>>17515955 #

found prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145179

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