PEPs # Here’s Barry Warsaw on the origin of PEPs, or Python Enhancement Proposals (edited from PyBay 2017): I like backronyms. For those who don’t know: a backronym is where you come up with the acronym first and then you come up with the thing that the acronym stands for. And I like funny sounding words, like FLUFL was one of those. When we were working for CNRI, they also ran the IETF conferences. The IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force, and they’re the ones who come up with t...
