They explicitly describe the PEP as evil, is there a tradition in the Python community for having obviously terrible PEPs, just to document the reasons for not doing something? Because that would make this a lot more understandable.
> I figure if I make this PEP, we can then ask Guido to quickly reject it, and then when this argument next starts up again, we can say ‘Guido isn’t changing things to suit the tab-haters or the only-tabbers, so this conversation is a waste of time.’ ...
> This proposal, if accepted, will probably mean a heck of a lot of work for somebody. But since I don’t want it accepted, I don’t care.
I don't know if there are others.
Good as a reminder that rules like “explicit is better than implicit” should not be followed all the way to the most absurd possible conclusions.
They're using "evil twin" in the sense of "it's closely related to 758, but goes in the opposite direction to it".