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I was pretty excited to do some of this when I got home from work, but my preferred language (Python) is only supported in an ancient version (2.3.0).

I wasn't sure when this version was released so I decided to look it up, 2.3.0 dates back to 2003.

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Hi, sorry for that! What is the most common version used currently?

Python 2.7 is the newest 2.x release, so it's what I imagine most people who haven't taken the plunge to Python 3 would be using.

Thanks, I've added the upgrade to our backlog, stay tuned!

Yes, this. I was happily coding and kept failing the (very) simple "Shazoo" challenge because either 2.3 or your interpreter doesn't understand the "if __name__ == '__main__'" logic for Python portability. I'm ashamed to say that it took three tries before I just took that out and submitted a program that, while inferior, passed.

I'm sorry for that, we're going to add support for 2.7 very soon!

Upon further reflection, it may be that you're loading the code dynamically or something (and not just running it as a command line application) or something that caused the __main__ not to trigger.

Once I understood the constraint, I was fine. It's a neat little app, and for somebody who's never had an actual job as a programmer, some of these exercises I feel are things that I should at least know the pattern.

I'm digging it.

Thanks! The code is executed by an "host" script with a system call, not sure if this breaks the __main__ function in python. We will look into that issue. :)

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