pep

Fenton Crackshell created a marketing campaign (with the help of another duck, who's name escapes me) extolling the virtues of pep on spec for Scrooge McDuck. Unfortunately, the ad campaign leaked to the public, creating a huge demand for Pep. Only one problem: No one knew what Pep was. So they took an experimental prototype of Gyro Gearloose's, a bubble gum whose bubbles cause the chewer to float, and named it Pep.

This caused problems, of course.

go back to the chocolate bar metanode?

python.org maintains a list of Python Enhancement Proposals, or PEPs (at www.python.org/peps). These are suggestions regarding the future development of the language, and are quite varied in scope. They are numbered, CVS-logged, categorised, and open to discussion on python.org. The BDFL takes them quite seriously indeed (although several were hastily withdrawn after incurring his wrath). They are also in the public domain. This is an important part of Python's opensource collaborative development.