I ' m not sure if you are strictly escaping the environment I could be wrong , I just tried this and after quitting the nested instance of python I was returned to the outer python prompt . It would leave me to believe that it was python 3 making a system call to run the python 2 interpreter ? Then on completing the system call exiting the interpreter control was returned to python 3 . I ' m not sure what you mean by escaping the environment though , in the theoretical Turing machine you don ' t really have anything outside the machine to escape into . <| sep |> Hey , interested in some edit buttons , kid ? <| sep |> The system also wasn ' t designed to stop the minority from dictating terms to the majority , which is what ' s happening now . Cities are more important now than they were then , and its downright ignorant to say that cities or large states should keep getting their votes suppressed on a national level , for the sake of middle America . You don ' t get to simply decide which group of people are worth more electoral votes or larger congressional influence . It should be decided by actual majority opinion . The system has collapsed , because it no longer does what it is expected to do today . It really doesn ' t matter what they thought 200 years ago , we live here and now . The political landscape has changed , the country has changed , the world has changed . But apparently government was perfected back in the 1790 s ? Really ? Abolish the electoral vote or change it to apply more proportionally . Fix the house district system . Change the proportional representation in congress to reflect modern society . The system , as it is now , is not fair to the people because it keeps being abused and gamed by politicians for their own benefit .