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I was super enthusiastic about this until I saw that you're doing it all in Repl. Love it or lump it, you're not going to be writing or deploying any practical Python scripts on Repl, and it's a bad idea to market this as any more "correct" than just interpreting the scripts on your own machine: particularly when the latter is almost objectively more educational and useful.

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What basic concepts (beyond installing and managing Python env) would you learn by using an interpreter installed locally?

The point, to me at least, seems to be laying the groundwork for even more learning and experimentation in python, while making it as easy as possible to do so.

It also has the benefit that any reader will end up with the same expected environment the guide is written for.

I will say that I totally agree that calling it the "right way" is disingenuous at best, and pure marketing fluff at worst.

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