Yeah! Believe it or not (shameless plug) it was yours-truly who finally got the idea to snowball through the gauntlet at python-ideas. The extent of my participation, but still, am happy with how it all turned out. (pat pat)

Python is no longer inferior to Bash and Perl for short scripts and more concise. Looking across the modern language landscape, this functionality is becoming an industry standard. The format string is also a little more sophisticated that it looks on the surface.

Still, I was a bit down that so many showed up to complain about it, mostly with purity or adversity-builds-character arguments. I'm glad lots of people are enjoying it.