As somebody who writes a lot of python, I'm going to quibble, but your statement isn't unfair. :) My quibble would be "don't use lib x". 99% of the time, you d

As somebody who writes a lot of python, I'm going to quibble, but your statement isn't unfair. :) My quibble would be "don't use lib x". 99% of the time, you don't need an unsupported 3rd party library from 2020. In the worst case, you can copy the subset of lib x that you actually need, the copied code will typically just work, verbatim, in a later python version. In summary, the "common" path travelled by footgun-aware python programmers is not this bad. But yeah, it'd be nice if the language constraints meant you couldn't end up in a situation like this, and it'd be nice if we didn't have to learn-by-footgun as much in the python community. TBF, Python is just an old language that comes with early-mover advantages and disadvantages. Like an old house, we have just learned to live with (i.e. avoid) certain floorboards.