[not_kurt_godel]

Hey, good for you that you like doing things the hard, fragile way. Personally I'll stick with the natively supported python solution that was made part of the standard library precisely because the overwhelming majority of Python programmers find your approach unsatisfactory.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0405/

[digisign]

It's not hard at all, just a pip install away. Perhaps a rare uninstall later.

It sounds like you haven't read the full thread. It's common for younger developers to be slaves to "best practice" even in exceptions where it doesn't apply.

Appeal to authority is not a compelling argument either.