Eric Snow added the comment:
The this module was actually the subject of a similar proposal recently:
issue19499. The same arguments there for leaving the module alone apply here.
(Amon other things, it's a neat little artifact:
http://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-pyth
New submission from Chris Angelico:
In an interactive session, typing 'import this' a second time doesn't produce
output (as the module's already imported). Peeking into the module shows a
string and what looks like a translation dictionary, but doing the obvious
thing:
>>> this.s.translate(t