Yeah, I mean, I've been reading a lot, and watching talks from conferences and whatnot online, so it's pretty clear to me that this person does not represent the Python community. I've definitely learned some things about programming from my time so far in Python: there are some really smart folks using it (and writing it). And I think calling the Python community "conservative" doesn't it enough credit, on the whole.

But I've also read a lot of stupid arguments in threads about what is "Pythonic" or not...so it's not just one idiot.