Last week, I had a minor but quietly painful accident. I ran pip install for a new library for Assignment A, and suddenly, the code for Assignment B, which I had finished weeks ago, stopped working.

You would think with a language as old as Python there wouldn't be much left to get excited about, but over the past few months PEP-572, a proposal to add a new feature, has been raising the blood ...

A recent thread on the python-ideas mailing list explores adding a feature to Python, which is the normal fare for that forum. The problem being addressed is real, but may not be the highest-priority ...