[badgar]

What's up with Peter Norvig's comment at the bottom? Did he not RTFA? He suggests a solution that the article criticizes heavily halfway through.

[cma]

Weird that he didn't address it, but optimizing for IDEs is not python's style. Although I'm sure the pains they went through with the 2to3 tool might make some of them second guess it.

[kami8845]

Why is it OK to be rude through abbreviations?

You'd get heavily downvoted for asking "Did Peter Norvig not read the fucking article?", yet that's exactly what you've put into everyone's mind with your comment.

[philwelch]

Initialisms like "RTFA" lose their literal intensity through overuse.

[icebraining]

Well, to me RTFA is such a common expression that I don't even associate it with the original words anymore; it has become a word on its own.