Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[Laura Creighton]

> Boris Borcic wrote:
>         ...
> > Octal has some virtues, e.g. 365 == 0555 making it easy
> > to remember the number of days in a usual (non-leap) year :)
> 
> I'm surprised you miss the main advantage -- 0666, the Number
> of the Beast in octal, translates to decimal 438, the A.D. in which
> Emperor Theodosius II promulgated the Theodosian Code, the
> wildly antisemitic laws which, among other things, forbid Christians
> to even give alms to Jews, forbid Jews to hold State office or build
> synagogues, condemned to death any Jew converting a Christian.
> 
> Surely this is therefore a number which is often handy in the everyday
> practice of programming, and even thinking of eventually making a
> non-builtin of the precious Python function that helps us work with a
> numbering system which has such wondrous properties is unholy.
> 
> 
> Alex

Alex, Alex, surely you know that the main advantage of oct is that 
dec 25 == oct 31  which you can use to prove that all Christians are
Satanists.

Laura