I saw this reply earlier! It was gone by the time I tried writing a response, but I don't feel like it's too far afield at all: it's a really nice response. (An

I saw this reply earlier! It was gone by the time I tried writing a response, but I don't feel like it's too far afield at all: it's a really nice response. (And thanks for doing that! It's always nice to see people volunteering for genuinely helpful things like this.) It doesn't seem like it was your fault, and it's understandable that you're frustrated. I don't, however, agree that anything written in Python 2 is contributing to that problem. Just because code exists doesn't mean it has to be used by other people, and this is a proof-of-concept obviously outside of the range of the class you were teaching. It's the Python Foundation's fault, and it doesn't seem like anyone else's. Python 2 is nicer to write from some perspectives, and, for example, the idea of somebody who didn't like Perl 6's changes being told to write Perl 6 instead of Perl 5 or else they were being harmful doesn't really make sense either.