Message 198203 - Python tracker

> Unfortunately I don't have time to review refactoring patches now. In light of a larger refactoring planned in this part of the module in the future, I don't think it's very important to tweak things right now.

You misunderstood. The proposal was to remove the ".root" attribute, because it introduces a new API that hinders the future development and unnecessarily introduces an unprecedented inconsistency with existing APIs.

This is not a refactoring.