Announcing Python 4 [possible satire]

1 April, 2019, Tel Aviv, Israel: The Python Software Foundation today announced the immediate availability of version 4 of the popular Python programming language.

The main (and only) change from version 3 is the replacement of the use of indentation for scoping, with curly braces. Whereas a sample session of Python version 3 and below is:

$ python3
Python 3.7.2 (default, Jan 28 2019, 01:12:59)
[GCC 8.2.1 20190118] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from __future__ import braces
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
>>>

In Python 4 it is:

$ python4
Python 4.0.0 (default, Apr 1 2019)
[GCC 8.2.1 20190118] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from __future__ import braces
Fuck, yeah!
>>> for i in range(3): { print(i); }
0
1
2
>>>

Note that the import statement is entirely optional and the use of braces will be enforced.

The foundation advises all Python developers to migrate their code to Python 4 because Python 3 will be end-of-lifed in 2030. One can use the new version of six.py called "twentyfour.py" (24 = 2×3×4) to write code which is compatible with both versions.

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