It took bold and determined leadership to make the breaking changes necessary to do things the right way. There were plenty of entrenched interests that would h

It took bold and determined leadership to make the breaking changes necessary to do things the right way. There were plenty of entrenched interests that would have preferred to keep doing things the wrong way because it was easier in the short term. If GvR and the rest of the core developers had been cowed by the reactionaries, Python would have stagnated. Instead, they persevered, and the language is much, much better today because of it. Woe to those of us who still have to use Python 2.