What if some rejected PEPs were actually accepted? How would Python look today? Let's go through 10 PEPs from the past and imagine an alternative future for the language!
## Timestamps
(00:00:00) INTRO
(00:01:00) PART 1: What if rejected PEPs were accepted?
(00:02:15) PEP 638: Syntactic Macros
(00:13:53) PEP 505: None-aware operators
(00:37:12) PEP 671: Late-bound function argument defaults
(00:44:40) PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators
(00:50:53) PEP 3136: Labeled break and continue
(00:52:49) PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions
(01:00:58) PEP 511: API for code transformers
(01:06:30) PEP 340: Anonymous block statements
(01:10:30) PEP 276 and PEP 284: Alternative integer iteration
(01:17:12) The do: while: loop
(01:19:50) The final boss of Python syntax feature requests
(01:25:33) PART 2: PR OF THE WEEK
(01:36:17) Raw f-string format fixes
(01:38:44) PART 3: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON
(01:40:55) Python 3.14 RC2 and Python 3.13.7
(01:43:20) Welcome to the core team, Emma
(01:43:50) Welcome to the release team, Savannah
(01:45:56) Free threading changes
(01:47:49) Perf improvements
(01:52:00) New features
(01:57:20) Bugfixes
(01:59:15) OUTRO