To Guido, a career's worth of thanks (I doubt I would have had one without Python) and for being encouraging and supportive to a very young dev at a long ago conference - to keep that up over decades means encouragement, mentoring and optimism was bred in your bones. Have a lovely permanent vacation.

To the python community, I hope we can find a successful, democratic way forward.

To myself, public service is a good thing - try harder !