Hmm, perhaps I somehow ended up with a really old copy of the code. I downloaded a tar.gz or zip file with a bunch of Python 2-only code (it definitely did not run under Python 3, I ran it under `2to3` without issue) directly from the wisc.edu site.
My memory was telling me the examples were all in C, so I went just now and picked a few random chapters, and the examples I saw were in C.
The book has a ton of C code snippets, and some other code examples, but all of the 'homework' problems are in Python.