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    >>> from __future__ import braces
      File "<stdin>", line 1
    SyntaxError: not a chance
For those interested in how this (hilarious) error text came to be, it's been hardcoded in cpython since 2001!

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad3d3f2f3f19833f59f...

The author, Jeremy Hylton, is now a Principal Engineer at Google working on AI search quality. It's quite remarkable that in 24 years, a single person's career has gone from a tongue-in-cheek memorialization of certain syntax being forbidden, to working on ubiquitous query systems that don't require dedicated syntax at all!

parent btown 2 years ago

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