Right, essentially the Python developers decided to define a sizable portion of their developer base as "bad people" due to their particular use of the string A

Right, essentially the Python developers decided to define a sizable portion of their developer base as "bad people" due to their particular use of the string API and then spent years going to war with them. The war continues to this day apparently with this Debian news. Somehow you can use fortran77 compilers without people getting angry but you can't use Python2