Don't complain about design warts if you're using an old version. Python 2 is just a couple years from end-of-life, and that's after the support guarantee was extended.
i didn't choose python 2.7. it is what i have installed on my work computer because the three projects i have worked on at work that used python were all using python 2.7, and the projects were led by "python people". in a couple cases, it was me who got them to upgrade from 2.6 to at least 2.7, and i have tried communicating to people to use python3 if they insist on python. i wouldn't choose python for a new project unless i had to again help someone else's project.
python's version bifurcation problem is its problem, not mine. the problem exists.
