[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[P.J. Eby]

At 11:30 PM 7/7/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:31 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > At 03:23 PM 7/7/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> >>
> >> When I started to work on this I didn't realize the gigantic amount of
> >> work and coordination it requires
> >
> > No one expects the package inquisition.  ;-)
> >
> >
>
>Sorry, i've looked in the english dictionary but I don't get this one.
>what do you mean ?

It's a Monty Python reference, i.e. "no one expects the Spanish Inquisition".

In the Spanish Inquisition sketch, a character is asked several 
questions he can't answer, and then complains that he wasn't 
expecting some kind of Spanish inquisition, at which point three 
scarlet-robed cardinals burst into the room and exclaim, "NO ONE 
expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

So I punned on that in order to imply that nobody who takes on the 
job of packaging expects to be asked the kind of detailed, 
unanswerable questions that come with the territory of packaging, or 
to be subjected to torture by third parties merely for trying to do 
something useful.

And, by further implication, I was thus expressing camaraderie with 
you on your initiation into the wonderful world of trying to satisfy 
everyone in Pythonland, and our shared experience in the area of "if 
I'd really known what I was getting into, I probably wouldn't have".  ;-)