The Python community has a long history of April Fool's postings to news:comp.lang.python (a.k.a. mailto:python-list@python.org). We've collected references to a number of them here. If you know of more, please update the page.

Postings and Press Releases

• 2001 [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/076593.html PythonLabs team moves to ActiveState]

• 2001 [http://web.archive.org/web/20071201071244/http://www.python.org/parrot.html Python and Perl joint development]

• 2003 [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/197232.html Stackless Perl 4.0]

• 2004 [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-April/256320.html 'goto' for Python] (which actually works!)

• 2005 [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/315453.html Perl-to-Python translation review request]

• 2006 [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/375866.html Python to adopt royalty-based commercial licensing]

April Fool's PEPs

• [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0313/ 2003 - Adding Roman numeral literals to Python]

• [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3117/ 2007 - Postfix type declarations]

Python humor on the web

• 1998 [http://web.archive.org/web/19990222163823/http://www.python.org/PSAward.html First Pythonic Award]

• [http://www.python.org/doc/humor/ - humor on python.org] (includes the Zen of Python)