[satisfice]

This was my first reaction, but the author won me over to his point as he went along.

I find the soil, surface, atmosphere analogy useful.

Also, I am one of those many many Python programmers who don’t know much about Python. Fascinating how you can be quite productive in tech, even so. Perhaps that’s the glory of Python. But for the record, nobody cares about the specifics of import, or anything else, unless it is likely to influence a problem or solution that we are grappling with.

I’m curious about Python… but I also have a job to do and a deadline.