banned for insignificant banality by peoples with misplaced hyper sensitivity. It's a black mark on the code of conduct not on Tim Peter !

I'm willing to bet money that the most rabid (scratch that) vocal people who demanded blood, didn't contribute to Python language and Python community 0.0001% of what he did. Just a hunch.

What actually happened (feel free to look it up), is that Tim got into a series of disagreements with people who wrote things like:

''' Our current board has a majority of people from the Global South or otherwise marginalized groups. That is encouraging and an extremely positive thing. As long as people who are demographically similar to me do not again have a majority, I have the utmost faith in the Board.

As far as I’ve seen, the entire support of this amendment comes from people who look and speak a whole lot like me. People like me should not be trusted. '''

I think that such people have embarrassed themselves sufficiently over the past few years, and that Tim would not have wanted us to use his obituary to embarrass them further. I say this as a person whose family comes from the Northern hemisphere portion of the Global South.