A good piece of April Fools joke... Python was going to add optional curly braces into the language syntax... And a hybrid language that combines PERL and Python dubbed Parrot was going to come out... I totally fell for it... ;) Although, I have to admit that the block scheme currently employeed by python could cause great confusion when you have extremely long code blocks .... then again that's why you should divide your code into functions.... unless you're like me and are trying to port FIPS181 to pure python code (I ended up just making a c python module)