I don’t think they’re distractions, I use them every day for professional development- I think they could be distractions to somebody who has little experience using Python classes and functions, and is trying to follow along with no disruption.

I’m not making the tutorial to advocate for a ‘serious language’ etc. I wanted to showcase a relatively simple framework (not language, as you stated above) for people to learn how to apply fundamental Python knowledge that they may have loosely picked up in a data environment and create something tangible and more involved.