These Python programmers could potentially run circles in smartness around you or Theo. Or not. But it has nothing to do with the back-porting under discussion.

These Python programmers could potentially run circles in smartness around you or Theo. Or not. But it has nothing to do with the back-porting under discussion. Not desiring to undertake a big code changing effort != stupidity. Especially when you aren't even paid to do it. Actually, considering that you would then have a patched mess of a codebase, or have to support to codebases for users of older Python versions, it's actually the smart thing to do. And it's not like OpenBSD ever got anywhere --if you insist of using it as an example that "not moving backwards ever" is a plus. What's its adoption percentage again?