- does something that is just asking for trouble and that nobody in their right mind should do without expecting terrible, terrible things to happen

It makes Python run about like JavaScript or PHP. I guess that's accurate.

Some people use Python as JS or PHP, why not also make it behave like that?

In reality, even if this is satire (which I believe it is) I'm sure if enough people will know about it, at least one of them will use it seriously.

> Some people use Python as JS or PHP, why not also make it behave like that?

If you want to go the other way, try

    window.onerror = window.close;

Ahh the famous halting problem and it's recursive work around for unrealistic deadlines where one simply says 'fuckit;'